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When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it and listened to the groundswell of traffic on Laurel Canyon Boulevard and looked at the glare of the big angry city hanging over the shoulder of the hills through which the boulevard had been cut. Far off the banshee wail of police or fire sirens rose and fell, never for very long completely silent. Twenty four hours a day somebody is running, somebody else is trying to catch him. Out there in the night of a thousand crimes, people were dying, being maimed, cut by flying glass, crushed against steering wheels or under heavy tires. People were being beaten, robbed, strangled, raped, and murdered. People were hungry, sick; bored, desperate with loneliness or remorse or fear, angry, cruel, feverish, shaken by sobs. A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness. It all depends on where you sit and what your own private score is. I didn't have one. I didn't care. I finished the drink and went to bed.


Raymond Chandler


#disillusionment #los-angeles #southern-california #home

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.


George R.R. Martin


#romanticism #life

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.


Jiddu Krishnamurti


#nature

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.


Jodi Picoult


#growing-up #narrow-mindedness #open-mindedness #wonder #kids

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.


Jodi Picoult


#innocence

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.


George Carlin


#disillusionment #idealism #disappointment

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)


Gustave Flaubert


#disillusionment #gilding #idols #touch #disappointment

It should not be possible for Christians to be disillusioned. We should have no illusions in the first place. Our faith is in Jesus Christ alone.


Gene Edward Veith Jr.


#disillusionment #faith

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.


Mitch Hedberg


#disillusion #go #here #i #i am

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.


Christopher Hitchens


#best #change #come #disillusioned #ever






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