Quotes by Cintra Wilson

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You cant really wake her up, but theres things shes still good for.

How could anyone catch all of the beauty in the Present Moment, when, after years of misery, there was suddenly a day when all the wonderfulness of life unexpectedly blew down from all directions all at once?

When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invisible English on the cue ball of your development: It influences all of your ideas about who you should be, all the ways in which you become yourself.

Theres a big luscious peach of a dream in L.A. The peach has been repeatedly exposed as overripe and tainted with wormholes... but its still the only giant peach in town. Even if its wet-brown and crawling with centipedes, everyone wants their bite.

Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having anything sweet or human or normal about themselves ever again.

Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more complication, sleaze, struggle, true beauty, unfairness, profundity, passion, and depth of consciousness than she, in her frantic struggle to be somebody other than her unspectacular self, had been previously aware of. page 302