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"Was kicking myself for only bringing a 600 page book on a trip, hard to make yourself start that. But the first five pages had me laughing out loud and muttering holy smokes to myself" — Jul 28, 2026 08:11PM
"Was kicking myself for only bringing a 600 page book on a trip, hard to make yourself start that. But the first five pages had me laughing out loud and muttering holy smokes to myself" — Jul 28, 2026 08:11PM
“Where there’s a secret,’ she says, ‘there’s shame – and shame is something we can do without.”
― Foster
― Foster
“You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped to her waist.”
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“But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“Dispassionately, reasonably, he contemplated the failure that his life must appear to be. He had wanted friendship and the closeness of friendship that might hold him in the race of mankind; he had had two friends, one of whom had died senselessly before he was known, the other of whom had now withdrawn so distantly into the ranks of the living that...
He had wanted the singleness and the still connective passion of marriage; he had had that, too, and he had not known what to do with it, and it had died. He had wanted love; and he had had love, and had relinquished it, had let it go into the chaos of potentiality. Katherine, he thought. "Katherine."
And he had wanted to be a teacher, and he had become one; yet he knew, he had always known, that for most of his life he had been an indifferent one. He had dreamed of a kind of integrity, of a kind of purity that was entire; he had found compromise and the assaulting diversion of triviality. He had conceived wisdom, and at the end of the long years he had found ignorance. And what else? he thought. What else?
What did you expect? he asked himself.”
― Stoner
He had wanted the singleness and the still connective passion of marriage; he had had that, too, and he had not known what to do with it, and it had died. He had wanted love; and he had had love, and had relinquished it, had let it go into the chaos of potentiality. Katherine, he thought. "Katherine."
And he had wanted to be a teacher, and he had become one; yet he knew, he had always known, that for most of his life he had been an indifferent one. He had dreamed of a kind of integrity, of a kind of purity that was entire; he had found compromise and the assaulting diversion of triviality. He had conceived wisdom, and at the end of the long years he had found ignorance. And what else? he thought. What else?
What did you expect? he asked himself.”
― Stoner
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