The palest ink is better than the best memory. —CHINESE PROVERB
“Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”
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“Two ingredients most valuable in the concocting of a ghost story are the atmosphere and the nicely managed crescendo
…Let us, then, be introduced to the actors in a placid way; let us see them going about their ordinary business, undisturbed by forebodings, pleased with their surroundings; and into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, and then more insistently, until it holds the stage.”
― A Warning to the Curious
…Let us, then, be introduced to the actors in a placid way; let us see them going about their ordinary business, undisturbed by forebodings, pleased with their surroundings; and into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, and then more insistently, until it holds the stage.”
― A Warning to the Curious
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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