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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― The Go-Between
― The Go-Between
“Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the next thing happened.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“The moon is, in fact, a hole in the sky. Consider.”
― The Underground Man
― The Underground Man
“Deprived of our memories we are deprived of our very selves. Without our histories we are vacated. We may walk and talk and eat and sleep but, in truth, we are nobody.”
― The Underground Man
― The Underground Man
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