Ian Layugan
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“We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.”
― In Search of the Word: Selected Essays
― In Search of the Word: Selected Essays
“The less you indulge yourself now, the more you can indulge yourself in the future, when you have made your fortune.”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
“This is how the entire course of life can be changed – by doing nothing. On Chesil beach he could have called out to Florence, he could have gone after her. He did not know, or would not have cared to know, that as she ran away from him, certain in her distress that she was about to lose him, she had never loved him more, or more hopelessly, and that the sound of his voice would have been a deliverance, and she would have turned back. Instead, he stood in cold and righteous silence in the summer’s dusk, watching her hurry along the shore, the sound of her difficult progress lost to the breaking of small waves, until she was blurred, receding against the immense straight road of shingle gleaming in the pallid light.”
― On Chesil Beach
― On Chesil Beach
“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, History, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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