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Anthony Trollope
“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”
Anthony Trollope

Keith Gessen
“We hurt one another. We go through life dressing up in new clothes and covering up our true motives. We meet up lightly, we drink rosé wine, and then we give each other pain. We don't want to! What we want to do, what one really wants to do is put out one's hands—like some dancer, in a trance, just put out one's hands—and touch all the people and tell them: I'm sorry. I love you. Thank you for your e-mail. Thank you for coming to see me. Thank you. But we can't. We can't. On the little life raft of Mark only one other person could fit. Just one! And so, thwarted, we inflict pain. That’s what we do. We do not keep each other company. We do not send each other cute text messages. Or, rather, when we do these things, we do them merely to postpone the moment when we'll push these people off, and beat forward, beat forward on our little raft, alone.”
Keith Gessen, All the Sad Young Literary Men

Mikhail Bulgakov
“In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust”
Mikhail Bulgakov

Keith Gessen
“She had such control of tone, in her text messages, she was the Edith Wharton of text messaging.”
Keith Gessen, All the Sad Young Literary Men

Andrei Platonov
“Everything in the existing world seemed strange to him; it was as if the world had been created for some brief, mocking game. But this game of make-believe had dragged on for a long time,for eternity, and nobody felt like laughing anymore.”
Andrei Platonov, Soul

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