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""It was becoming increasingly easy to see how people ended up vanishing in cities, disappearing in plain sight . . . I was getting a taste of it, all right, but what on earth would it be like to live the whole of your life like this, occupying the blind spot in other people's existences, their noisy intimacies? If anyone can be said to have worked from that place, it's Henry Darger" (p. 136)." — Apr 13, 2016 07:57PM
""It was becoming increasingly easy to see how people ended up vanishing in cities, disappearing in plain sight . . . I was getting a taste of it, all right, but what on earth would it be like to live the whole of your life like this, occupying the blind spot in other people's existences, their noisy intimacies? If anyone can be said to have worked from that place, it's Henry Darger" (p. 136)." — Apr 13, 2016 07:57PM
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""Garbo's face is an Idea, Hepburn's an Event" (p. 75, "Garbo's Face").
"If God is really speaking through Dr. Graham's mouth, it must be acknowledged that God is quite stupid" (p. 110, "Billy Graham at the Vel' d'Hiv'")." — Aug 26, 2013 05:52PM
""Garbo's face is an Idea, Hepburn's an Event" (p. 75, "Garbo's Face").
"If God is really speaking through Dr. Graham's mouth, it must be acknowledged that God is quite stupid" (p. 110, "Billy Graham at the Vel' d'Hiv'")." — Aug 26, 2013 05:52PM
“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”
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“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
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“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
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“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
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“I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.”
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
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