A Quotes
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“Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I'm unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.”
“Am I in the Forbes 100? Absolutely not, and I'll never be there. But for the first time I make so much money that I feel poor, like I have to cultivate and protect this fortune. But I never had more than $20 in my pocket before RuPaul's Drag Race so I feel so privileged with money, it's terrible. I bought a $300 beige t-shirt today.”
“Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner?”
“Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station and did not stop, that I was on the wrong train, and did I not learn from the conductor that the train would not stop at the next station, either, a hundred kilometers away, and did he not also admit to me, whispering with his hand shielding his mouth, that the train would not stop again at all?”
Source: Conquest of the useless: reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo
“Am I in trouble? He chortled, "well, a bunch of not-so-friendly thugs were waiting to ambush you and blow up your apartment. If that doesn't qualify as trouble, I don't know what does.”
Source: Tempted into Danger
“Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?”
“Am I insane, are you insane, or are we both insane?”
“am i insane" asked alice
"yes, but all the best people are" replied her father”
“Am I insane or a genius?”
“Am I insane or am I just in outer Space?”
“Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned.”
“Am I just a game to you?”
Hunter laughed again. “Maybe. But, I’ll tell you one thing for certain.”
“What?” I asked breathlessly.
He edged closer to me, sweeping a lock of hair behind my ear before breathing his hot breath on my neck. As he trailed his nose along the base, I shuddered. He stopped a moment and then carried on up towards my ear. “I always win,” he whispered.”
Source: A Step Two Close
“Am I just chasing it because it's the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?”
“Am I, just now, more interested in appearing openly louche (look at me lapping at luxury) or secretly wounded? How close to the surface is my pain? Or, rather, how close to the surface do I want my pain to appear to be? How enamored am I of the clichés of female pain? Or, rather, of which of these clichés am I enamored? Do I wish to make my distress visible and, therefore, hysterical? Or do I wish to suffer in silence?”
Source: Topics of Conversation
“Am I keeping my promises?”
“Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture”
“Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples.”
Source: Approved Unto God / Facing Reality
“Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?”
Source: Heart Mountain
“Am I living in a simulation?”
“Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?”
Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy
“Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. But I'm also doing really well. I'd be a robot if I said I didn't feel moments of anger, of hurt, of embarrassment... [but] You joke and say, 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger'.”
“Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?”
“Am I losing my mind? I wondered. It was like being falling-down drunk: my body was independent of me. Before I knew it, tears were flooding out. I felt myself turning bright red with embarrassment & got off the bus. I watched it drive away, and then without thinking I ducked into a poorly lit alley. Jammed between my own bags, stooped over, I sobbed. I had never cried this way in my life. As the hot tears poured out, I remembered that I had never had a proper cry over my grandmother's death. I had a feeling that I wasn't crying over any one sad thing, but rather for many.”
Source: Kitchen
“Am I lost or just less found?”
“Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?”
“Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people.”
“Am I mad or am I just in a time warp?”
“Am I mad or is she? Does all this arise out of an inventive, wanton woman's brain with the intention of surpassing my supersensual fantasies, or is this woman really one of those Neronian characters who take a diabolical pleasure in treading underfoot, like a worm,
human beings, who have thoughts and feelings and a will like theirs?”
Source: Venus in Furs
“Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?”
Source: Resurrection
“Am I making a mistake? Maybe. But it's mine to make.”
Source: The Sun Is Also a Star
“Am I making something worth while?
I’m not sure.
I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time about my life and choices making ways, into other lives, other hearts,
but am I making something worth while?
I’m not sure.
There was a boy last night who I never spoke to because I was too drunk and still shy, but mostly lonely, and I couldn’t find anything lightly to say,
so I simply walked away
but still wondered what he did with his life
because he didn’t even speak to me
or look at me
but still made me wonder who he was
and I walked away asking
Am I making something worth while?
I am not sure.
I am a complicated person with a simple life
and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.”
Source: Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
“Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.”
“Am I mentally ill or am I just a mad scientist?”
“Am I missing an eyebrow?”
“Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a corner man, like a boxer; he watches me and tells me what I do wrong before I go in for the next round. Barry thought he was going to write what became Executioner's Song, and I told him he wasn't going to. And Barry's closest friend was Joan Didion.”
“Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to find I'm the same old me? There is comfort in the tried and true. Breaking ground might uncover a sinkhole, one impossible to climb out of. And setting sail in uncharted waters might mean capsizing into a sea monster's jaws. Easier to turn my back on these things than to try tjem and fail. And yet, a whisper insists I need to know if they are or aren't integral to me. Status quo is a swamp. And stagnation is slow death.”
“Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?”
“Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“Am I nervous? Yeah. Am I scared? Sure. But I do this because I love it.”
“Am I no a bonny fighter?”
“Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic for a technology. I’m nostalgic for the kind of films that used to be made that aren’t being made now.”
“Am I not a fearsome enemy?" "You frighten me primally.”
Source: Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One
“Am I not a man and brother?”
“Am I not a woman and a sister?”
“Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite?”
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
“Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?”
Source: Bite Club
“Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?”
Source: Into the Woods
“Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!”