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He’d sit before a Rembrandt or a Vermeer and feel guilty about it, as if he’d gone straight to the postcoital cigarette. Most
“played the piano every night and made the most superficial acquaintances with poets and painters and artists that often only lasted a night.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“But if you stick with it, the elements of familiarity become clear. The current rhythm is speeding up. I am approaching a crescendo. Everything is happening all at once. That is one of the patterns: when nothing is happening, nothing continues to happen, but after a while the lull becomes too much and the drums need to kick in. Something has to happen. Often that need comes from yourself.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“as was so often the case with anger, it was really just fear projecting outwards. The society was nothing – it had no”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“She was one of a group of girls he’d observed bloom from scraggly weeds into tropical beauties who churned the air around them into a dense humidity.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
“A moment of authenticity when fate and blueprint collide and everything is not only possible, but within arm’s reach.”
― Tin Man
― Tin Man
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