Jonathan Goldstein Quotes

#1. We want more than there is.

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#2. When he heard his father call out for Abel and he saw his borther go forth, it made him feel like he was nothing. He couldn't even say that he felt like Cain anymore. One could not feel like Cain because it had no flavor. Cain was the absence of flavor. Cain was like saliva or a Wednesday.

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#3. How do you get over a first love?" he asks.
"You never do," Howard says. "It just stays with you and becomes a part of who you are.

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#4. I felt like a young Tony Montana having come to America, except the only person I wanted to kill was myself.

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#5. If you could jerk off to something else, like a hamburger, could you imagine the delight in being alive?

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#6. But I am enjoying the feeling of inbetweenness - that not-yet-being-settled feeling - and I plan on dragging it out as long as I can, because its a state of grace where all things are permissible.

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#7. Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, is a sign that the day has just begun and good things can still happen. Having lunch is like throwing in the towel.

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#8. What is it about legs? Or what is it about breasts? Or the small of the back? What is it about anything? One day there will be no difference between anything. It'll all be the exact same thing. One day you'll look in the dictionary and there will be only one word and you'll just have to make do.

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#9. Certain voices hold this odd pull on our heartstrings. They are like sad oboes or something, something that makes you want to throw all your money at the radio while yelling, "I love you." I don't know what it is.

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#10. Even so tiny a loss has the power to still feel like a loss.

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#11. In his day, liking someone like David Bowie would have been the domain of degenerate officers in black and white movies about nazis.

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#12. When David wasn't ruling, he would ponder all the various forms of laughter there could be. So far, he had only categorized four: laughter at your own expense, laughter at the expense of others, laughter at the human predicament, and laughter at small animals falling off tables.

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#13. He rubbed his feet back and forth on the library carpet and when she walked by, he touched her with the tip of his index finger

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#14. How strange to feel yourself falling in love with someone you've only just met.

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#15. In sleep things are simpler. No regret over the past. No worry for the future. Only the present. And as bad as a dream gets, at least you get to sleep through it.

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