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Losing Venice
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Hemingway Lives: the Super-Secret, Never-Before-Published Blogs of Ernest Hemingway
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Wasted Away: The Worldwide Party Guide
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Picketing with Prometheus
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Springtime in the Piazza (an excerpt from Losing Venice, a novel)
Finally I started talking some sense into myself. I gave up on missing the girl. I missed the pursuit, missed the feeling of missing her, even. But knew that dreams of what might have been have a limited lifespan in man. I worked and wandered aimlessly. Even when I stared at the back of every red-headed crop of female hair in any crowd, I reminded myself that I was only wandering aimlessly.
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“In Venice, if you didn’t know where you were going, you usually ended up in the Piazza and since that was always true, maybe it was always where you were going.”
― Losing Venice
― Losing Venice
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”
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“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
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“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
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“Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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