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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.”
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“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
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“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”
― At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
― At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
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