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At the piano he plays with soul, undeniably; but the soul that rules him is Chopin’s, not his own. And if that soul strikes one as unusually dry and severe, it may point to a certain aridity in his own temperament.
“THERE WAS NOWHERE ON EARTH more desolate than a Gristedes on New Year’s Eve.”
― City on Fire
― City on Fire
“(why exactly twenty-somethings are considered so vital to protest movements, I never figured out, seeing as how they never vote and have no money)”
― The Wallcreeper
― The Wallcreeper
“the Lost City of White Male Privilege, a controversial municipality whose very existence is often denied by many (mostly privileged white males). Others state categorically that the walls of the locale have been irreparably breached by hip-hop and Roberto Bolaño’s prose. That the popularity of the spicy tuna roll and a black American president were to white male domination what the smallpox blankets were to Native American existence.”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
“Satin Island, like all books, contains hundreds of borrowings, echoes, remixes and straight repetitions. To list them all would take up as much space as the text itself. The critical reader can entertain him- or herself tracking some of them down, if he or she is that way inclined.”
― Satin Island
― Satin Island
“The world was overpopulated with talkers and underpopulated by listeners, and many of her sources gave her the impression that she was the first person who’d ever truly listened to them.”
― Purity
― Purity
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