Quotes from book
The Trouble With Being Born
“There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Obviously God was a solution, and obviously none so satisfactory that will ever be found again.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass — which is better than trying to fill them.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Nothing deserves to be undone, doubtless because nothing deserved to be done.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“God is what survives the evidence that nothing deserves to be thought.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Fear is the antidote to boredom: the remedy must be stronger than the disease.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)