“He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“don't ask me a lot of questions if you don't like the answers”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“He took her in in his arms and kissed her. The coffeepot boiled over and they laughed and laughed with the simple foolish joy of being alive.”
― Daughter of Silence
― Daughter of Silence
“If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“There are so many ways of walking about and the best, in my opinion, is the Greek way, because it is aimless, anarchic, thoroughly and discordantly human.”
― The Colossus of Maroussi
― The Colossus of Maroussi
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