- Edie Sedgwick: You are so much fun. How come you don't spend more time with us?
- Richie Berlin: Because of my lips.
- Edie Sedgwick: Your lips?
- Richie Berlin: They have a hard time kissing Andy Warhol's ass.
They serve like a mockery in way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers, when there is something bitter to taste. And to pretend there isn’t is foolish.
When I die bury me upside down so the world can kiss my ass.
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things”
Rainer Maria Rilke, a poet and romantic philosopher,” “In German he writes, ‘Confess to yourself in the deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?’ ”
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
i feel like everything he writes, its things i say or tell people when they are going through a tough time. I admire him.
