this is part two of my winter break book series! i had read a short excerpt from this book online once and thought it'd be an interesting read. it was quite difficult to read because i didn't understand a lot of the colloquial British language that he used. i only understood some of it because i watch the shows, misfits and skins, haha. anyway, russell brand's autobiography was mostly blabber, but there are many parts of the book that are extremely beautifully written. here are some of the quotations that i liked:
"Eventually there is no more universe between our lips and so we kiss."
"You don't wanna take life too seriously. If you don't laugh you'll fuckin' cry."
"I still have an unsophisticated notion that women are ministers of redemption, that one day in the arms of a perfumed saviour I'll be rendered complete."
"Good kissing and good sex is communication beyond language. I love language, I like sexual communication with beautiful women and I don't think it's invalid. I don't think it's any lesser and I don't know how it's been tainted by morality and adjusted to be somehow lower. I know it's animal and it's primal, but there's certainly an argument that it's a purer form of communication, that there's less duplicity. I don't try and mislead someone with my sexual commiunication. I purely communicated, by holding on to them, by dancing my way through them, by kissing them and adoring them."
"Privacy and sanity are not commodities to be traded lightly."
"The gravity of strife and mayhem had pulled me once more into its grim sphere. Perhaps I deserved it."
"God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the beating heart of the creator from the universe's perfect birth. Stood in the thin air and the awe, one inhales God, involuntarily acknowledging that we are but fragments of a whole, a higher thing. The mountains remind me of my place, a servant of truth and wonder. Yes, God is in the mountains."
"I became friends once with this swami who looked at me with timeless eyes, a man uncluttered by hypocrisy, who knew that life had no meaning but to be beautiful and lived, with each breath, that ethos."
"There's never a point, though, of reclining in a bath and thinking, "I've done it"-it always feels ongoing, it feels constant, because whenever those achievements are being made you're thinking about whatever you've got to do next."
"That's what I always feel when I'm in America, that I'm in a big place that's humming with difference, and being held together and pulled apart with the exact same intensity, so that it's constantly taut and vibrant, buoyant with its own suppressed explosion of diversity."
"I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life."
"These are the moments where one feels proximity to truth, where the supernatural becomes tangible."
"I get this gurgling discontent in my belly, a sense that everything is pointless and that nothing, nobody is worthwhile and that maybe it'd be better to slip off under a blanket or a drug and never face the light again. I think it's fear, dread, terrible knowledge. It can come at any time."
"I want love not just physical but spiritual."
"She was cruelly beautiful."
"A moment where you grope for your place in the world, aware that there's something you must do, some change, some obligation."
"We laughed by way of medicine. Comedy served its most beautiful function of alchemically transforming leaden pain into glistening laughter...but my head was not a nice place to be when the laugher stopped."
"Each individual, in their way flawed and hopeless, but unified perfect in their chaos."
"Fame, money, and glamour aren't the answer. You can't find spiritual solutions in a material world."
"The closer I got to the summit of this mountain of indulgence, the more the climb seemed pointless."
"I see the beauty in people, I want to connect with it and hold on to it."
"The next night we went on our first date and she was so funny and pretty but more importantly she emits some gentle power that makes me want to be good....From the first date I changed. No more women. Well, actually, thousands of women. I wake up to a different one each day."
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phew, that was extremely tiring to type all that out. sorry, it's so long. there's still a lot of quotations that i like but missed. if you're curious enough, go out and buy the book!
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