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“Its only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything.”
Variant: It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Source: Fight Club
“Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.”
Quoted at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts website (December 2009).
“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”
Source: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 142
Context: “I don’t know,” he admitted.
“Well.” She started pouring tea. “To start things off, what do you think of the world?”
“I don’t know anything.”
“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you’re seventeen you know everything. When you’re twenty-seven if you still know everything you’re still seventeen.”
“You seem to have learned quite a lot over the years.”
“It is the privilege of old people to seem to know everything. But it’s an act and a mask, like every other act and mask. Between ourselves, we old ones wink at each other and smile, saying, How do you like my mask, my act, my certainty? Isn’t life a play? Don’t I play it well?”
They both laughed quietly.
“What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?”
Source: Along for the Ride
Podcast Series 1 Episode 1
On Ageing
“Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.”
Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)
