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To be fair to them, they were only after something that walled them off from the past and from people in general, not something that offered any connection that might prove painful or human. Thet wanted stories, I came to realise, in which they were already imprisoned, not stories in which they appeared along with the storyteller, accomplices in escaping.
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― Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
― Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
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Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart's maelstrom.
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― The Din In The Head: Spirited Essays on Great Literature, Wit, and the Curative Power of Imagination
― The Din In The Head: Spirited Essays on Great Literature, Wit, and the Curative Power of Imagination
