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“One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.”
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“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”
― On Certainty
― On Certainty
“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Essays of Three Decades
― Essays of Three Decades
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
― Faust, First Part
― Faust, First Part
The Kindred Spirits
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Listomania
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Loosed in Translation
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The Extra Cool Group! (of people Michael is experimenting on)
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fiction files redux
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— last activity Oct 10, 2022 09:43AM
this is a literary love-in, baby . . . books, literature, fiction of all shapes and sizes, these things we discuss . . . make yourself at home, check ...more
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