“Viktor had been very sad about their grandfather's death, but Flora had intuited that it was less the person he grieved for than the fact of death itself. Death meant that people actually disappeared. That everyone was going to disappear”
― Handling the Undead
― Handling the Undead
“The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.”
― Boy: Tales of Childhood
― Boy: Tales of Childhood
“if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.”
― For the Time Being: Essays
― For the Time Being: Essays
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