Galt Niederhoffer Quotes

#1. He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very young or very stupid.

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#2. Love and hysteria are easily mistaken.

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#3. She was not brokenhearted because the relationship had ended suddenly; she was brokenhearted because it had never truly ended.

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#4. Rivalry glued the girls together in a way that regular contact could not.

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#5. Not to speak would have infused the moment with more meaning than it deserved.

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#6. Was it possible there was some fatal flaw in their matching, that they were ultimately, impossibly different
dissimilar enough to fall in love, but too fundamentally distinct to stay together?

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#7. The state of being lost, he seemed to imply, granted him a kind of freedom.

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#8. Their looks and personalities were still intact, but some thing had atrophied ever so slightly. Their faces bore the distinct wear of goals gone too long unfulfilled.

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#9. The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.

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#10. Occasionally, she wondered if all couples struggled so much to understand one another, spoke so little at dinner together, spent so much time camped out in front of the TV. Did all women sometimes feel distanced from their man while they were making love?

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#11. There was no one
nothing else in the world
that had this unbelievable effect on him: thrilling electrification. But just as soon as he acknowledged this gift, he sought to destroy it.

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#12. But as always, the distance between them gave way to a need to be closer.

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#13. The sound of his voice was an overwhelming relief, like remembering the name of a beloved song or returning to a childhood haunt to find it totally unchanged. Did he not fee the same swell of relief? Or was he just better at hiding it?

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#14. There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

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#15. And she had been in love enough times to rule out the possibility that this was merely some feat of nostalgia.

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#16. Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.

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#17. Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.

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#18. I don't think I have some special gift for knowing what's in your heart. I think we both do.

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#19. If anything was, that the world will always
it can only
disappoint.

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