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"It will be another two hours before she is there, that is a long time to travel with a broken heart." — Mar 24, 2026 01:26AM
"It will be another two hours before she is there, that is a long time to travel with a broken heart." — Mar 24, 2026 01:26AM
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"Well," said Winterbourne, "when you deal with natives you must go by the custom of the place. Flirting is a purely American custom; it doesn't exist here. So when you show yourself in public with Mr. Giovanelli, and without your mother—"
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“щяха да се надрискат, ако видеха как баба е похарчила пари, които е нямала, за да направи на блудния син погребението, което според нея той заслужава, едно от ония погребения, каквито вече от години не се виждаха в селото, с тамалес с агнешко за всички присъстващи, с музикална група от севера, с мариачи, с каси, с цели каси ракия от захарна тръстика, та всички да направят хубаво главата и да оплакват Маурилио както си му е редът”
― Hurricane Season
― Hurricane Season
“When Paul Valéry was interviewing Albert Einstein, he asked the great scientist, “Do you carry a notebook around to record your ideas?” Einstein was an unflappable man, but this question clearly unnerved him. “No,” he answered. “There’s no need for that. You see I rarely have new ideas.”
― Novelist as a Vocation
― Novelist as a Vocation
“What we call the imagination consists of fragments of memory that lack any clear connection with one another.”
― Novelist as a Vocation
― Novelist as a Vocation
“Tell people in America that your novel sold a million copies in Japan or won some literary prize and they’re basically unimpressed, but get published in The New Yorker and they start treating you very differently. I often find myself envious of a culture like this, where such a landmark magazine exists.”
― Novelist as a Vocation
― Novelist as a Vocation
“момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата, та да не се страхуват от нищо”
― Hurricane Season
― Hurricane Season
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