Quotes by Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron

And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like – the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that.

Boys

Girl

Moving

Are you okay?’ she asked me. Of course,’ I said. ‘Why wouldn’t I be okay?’ There are lots of reasons why you might not be okay.’ There are lots of reasons why anyone might not be okay,’ I said.

Might

Reason Why

Said

Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the act of articulating those thoughts were not synchronous to me, or even necessarily consecutive. I knew that I thought and spoke in the same language and that theoretically there should be no reason why I could not express my thoughts as they occurred or soon thereafter, but the language in which I thought and the language in which I spoke, though both English, often seemed divided by a gap that could not be simultaneously, or even retrospectively, bridged.

Drs

Gaps

Thinking

I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn’t care that she smelled bad or was fat or wore clothes unlike everyone else’s, she had some weird disconnect with life that kept her constantly bubbling, and you knew she would go blithely through her long horribly boring life thinking every thing was just swell (the opposite of me).

Clueless

Optimistic

Thinking

I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.

Adults

Childhood

World

I don’t think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can’t bear environments that make this truth so obvious.

Bears

Thinking

World

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

Awful

Charming

Pressure

I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing–working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!

Ideas

People

World

I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.

Hate

People

Thinking

I knew my mother was right, but that didn’t change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they’re right, you’ll change your mind.

Mother

People

Thinking

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Addiction

Adults

Another Man

Awful

Bears

Believe

Bird

Bitter

Boys

Charming

Childhood

Clueless

Coffee

Compelling Reason

Differences

Different

Distance

Doe

Dog

Dream

Drs

Effort

Fashion

Feels

Gaps

Girl

Girlfriend

Hate

Ideas

Important

Jobs

Knowing

Knows

Life

Love You

Math

Men

Might

Mother

Moving

Names

New York

Night

Nonsense

Numbers

Optimistic

People

Perfect

Pressure

Real

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Quotes by Peter Cameron

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Are you okay?’ she asked me. Of course,’ I said. ‘Why wouldn’t I be okay?’ There are lots of reasons why you might not be okay.’ There are lots of reasons why anyone might not be okay,’ I said.

I don’t think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can’t bear environments that make this truth so obvious.

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing–working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!

I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.

I knew my mother was right, but that didn’t change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they’re right, you’ll change your mind.

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