We all impose some coherence—some meaning—on the chaotic events of our existence. We rummage through the raw images of our memories, selecting, burnishing, erasing. We emerge as the heroes of our stories, allowing us to live with what we
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“Committing suicide would be so irrational that even had he wished to, the irrationality of the act would have prevented him.”
― The Trial
― The Trial
“There was some more good-natured laughter at the expense of women.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“But a man with a belly like that can never become a flogger, it’s totally out of the question.” “There are floggers like me,” insisted Willem, who was just undoing his belt. “No!” said the flogger, stroking him across the neck with the rod in a way that made him twitch, “you shouldn’t be listening, you should be stripping.”
― The Trial
― The Trial
“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out.”
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
“Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
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