“I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it.”
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“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
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“Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday”
― On Fiction
― On Fiction
“...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
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