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“At a certain level of abstraction, anyone could have written the poem, but that didn't feel true either. It seemed as though what he was really saying was: there's something beautiful about the way you think and feel, or the way you experience the world is beautiful in some way.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Is it possible we could develop an alternative model of loving each other?”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Things matter to me more than they do to normal people, I thought. I need to relax and let things go. I should experiment with drugs.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure.”
― The White Album
― The White Album
“At times I thought this was the worst misery I had experienced in my life, but it was also a very shallow misery, which at any time could have been relieved completely by a word from him and transformed into idiotic happiness.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
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