slaughterhouse90210 – CLARITY AND CHAOS

slaughterhouse90210: “They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.” ― Alice Munro, The Moons of Jupiter

slaughterhouse90210: “How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy’s flute-like voice has its own spring …

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slaughterhouse90210: “What’s terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better.” ― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

slaughterhouse90210: “There was a kindliness about intoxication – there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

slaughterhouse90210: “Things might have been different if she hadn’t been able to drift; if she’d had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we’d done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

slaughterhouse90210: “If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five