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“While it’s true that, as Tolstoy observed, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and everyone on planet Earth, vale of tears that it is, is certainly entitled to the specificity of his or her suffering, one nonetheless likes to think that literature has the power to render comprehensible different kinds of unhappiness. If it can’t do that, what’s it good for?”
― The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
― The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
“Some people are curious about a writer’s “creative process.” I can’t explain mine except to say that God is the starting point and the finish line. In other words, when all else fails— and it always does— I pray.”
― The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
― The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
“What does a language retain of the violence it has been used to commit?”
― Translation as Transhumance
― Translation as Transhumance
“My mother believed that people harbored essential stances of like or dislike toward others, and betrayed these stances in their words and actions. If you came out looking terrible in a photograph, it was a sign that the person who took it didn’t really like you.”
― The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
― The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
“All my mania for culture, for ‘really good’ things, for knowing about jazz recordings and red wine and Danish furniture, even about Keats and Shakespeare and James Baldwin, what if it’s all a form of vanity, or even worse, a little bandage over the initial wound of my origins? I have put between myself and my parents such a gulf of sophistication that it’s impossible for them to touch me now or to reach me at all.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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