January 2012
25 posts
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“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is...”
– Lewis Carroll
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“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
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“Stefanie de Vincennes intoxicated me four years ago; but I was besotted with...”
– Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (52)
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“What is it you understand, Florita? asked Sergio. Don’t tell, Florita,...”
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Roberto Bolaño, 2666
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“What makes them interesting to us?” asked his editor....”
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Roberto Bolaño, 2666
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“Exile must be a terrible thing,” said Norton sympathetically....”
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Roberto Bolaño, 2666
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“The first impression the critics had of Amalfitano was mostly negative,...”
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Roberto Bolaño, 2666
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“He had some flaws…but overall, according to Vanessa, he was a good person...”
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Roberto Bolaño, 2666
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“When he got up to shake hands, it occurred to both Espinoza and Pelletier that...”
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Roberto Bolaño, 2666
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“words that to the little gaucho sounded like the moon, like the passage of...”
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Roberto Bolaño, 2666
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“In fact the apprehension that our life together will decreasingly be the center...”
–
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (226)
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“Had I been operating from my rational mind I would not have been entertaining...”
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Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (205)
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“We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not...”
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Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (196)
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“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty,”...”
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Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (192)
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“I used to tell John my dreams, not to understand them but to get rid of them,...”
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Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (158)
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“Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed. They remember the tree...”
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Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (152)
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“What would I give to be able to discuss this with John? What would I give to be...”
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Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (146)
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“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms,...”
– Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (27)
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“Sometimes, however, as they sat on a cafe terrace or around a dark cabaret...”
– Roberto Bolaño, 2666
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“Little solace comes to those who grieve when walls keep shifting as thoughts...”
– Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via vincent iadevaia)
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a...”
– Don Draper
December 2011
2 posts
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“I was never a big fan of people who don’t leave home. I don’t know why. It just...”
– Joan Didion, Paris Review - The Art of Nonfiction No. 1
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“I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
November 2011
10 posts
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“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelo
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“Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for...”
– Colm Tóibín
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“She was the still point of the turning world. I never got over that girl. Never....”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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“Every kind of person will kill every other kind of person in every kind of way,...”
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Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes (58, The Man Who)
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“They act as if they had never heard the question before. The what? they say. The...”
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Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes (56, How the Air Feels to the Birds)
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“She has never remembered, with any clarity, the pain she suffered between her...”
– Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes (32, There are Different Kinds)
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“The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together...”
– Alain de Botton, On Love
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“In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m...”
– Miranda July (via hiredgoons)
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“They were sorry, they were saying with their bodies, they were accepting each...”
– George Saunders, Tenth of December (via booksijustread)
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“That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”
– Raymond Carver (via this isn’t happiness.)
October 2011
9 posts
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“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein (via nevver)
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WatchBrene Brown: The power of vulnerability | TED
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“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to...”
– Steve Jobs (via harry roman)
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“Mildred and Fiona are sitting onc hairs beside the dance floor, waving at Rolph...”
– Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (82)
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“Anyway, those were catastrophes. Not like this: prescriptions by the bed, a...”
– Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (85)
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“Rhea and I stand by Lou’s bed, unsure what to do. We know him from a time...”
– Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (85)
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“Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was...”
– Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (210)
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“What moved Ted, mashed some delicate glassware in his chest, was the quiet of...”
– Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (214)
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“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
September 2011
12 posts
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“Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth— inevitably, and there is no...”
– Louise Erdrich
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“My mind is, to use a disgustingly obvious simile, like a wastebasket full of...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“The truth is like a strung out pimp in the middle of a storm.”
– Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (612)
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“Does it make you happy?” he countered.
The door shook on its hinges.
As...”
– Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (231)