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Trained by our schoolbooks to speak with great skill about what we had never seen, we were excited by the invisible.
“And of course when I say that my dear father was a failure I mean it only in the grossest worldly sense. He was an intelligent good man, pure in heart.”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
“and I still did not know what to think about the fact that I had briefly borne death in my body—”
― Audition
― Audition
“Oh Hartley, Hartley, how timeless, how absolute love is. My love for you is unaware that I am old and you perhaps are dead.”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
“Tenderness and absolute trust and communication and truth: these things matter more and more as one grows older.”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
“winds of history, found himself reciprocating. Writing checks with his mouth that his ass could never hope to cover.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
JP Higgins’s 2025 Year in Books
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