I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
A source page for quotes linked to Young-Ha Kim.
“聽說孩子在動物園裡對猴子丟石頭,在寵物店用拳頭拍打展示櫥窗,嚇唬小狗的原因,事實上是想和牠們對話。因為沒有反應,孩子才用他們自己的方式,和這些動物交流。”
“Dont be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.”
“When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?”
“People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.”
“There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.”
“And still everything’s the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could.”
“Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.”
“Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?”
“Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.”
“Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.”
“The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.”
“We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.”
“The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.”
“A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.”