“To be understood is to prostitute oneself”— Fernando Pessoa Related Quotes “I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.”– Donna Tartt “Some women like to treat a man like a piece of bubble gum. The poor sap thinks everything’s fine. And it is—until the taste runs out. Then she’ll just spit him out the car window of her life and never look back.”— Robert Burton Robinson “You can’t go home again”— Thomas Wolfe