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“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
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“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Essays of Three Decades
― Essays of Three Decades
“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.
That is their mystery and their magic.”
― The God of Small Things
That is their mystery and their magic.”
― The God of Small Things
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