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“Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land

“People are lonely, is my point here. Many people can’t say to those they know well what it is they feel they might want to say.”
― Oh William!
― Oh William!

“He said that he had learned Transcendental Meditation as a way of dealing with otherwise uncontrollable ticcing in public places.“It’s just autohypnosis,” he explained. “You have a mantra, a little word or phrase repeating slowly in your mind, and you soon get into a sort of trance and become oblivious to everything. It calms me down.” He remained almost tic-free for the rest of the evening.”
― Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
― Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales

“But we are all mythologies, mysterious. We are all mysteries, is what I mean.
This may be the only thing in this world I know to be true.”
― Oh William!
This may be the only thing in this world I know to be true.”
― Oh William!

“The things that look fixed in the world, child—mountains, wealth, empires—their permanence is only an illusion. We believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives. From the perspective of God, cities like this come and go like anthills.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land

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