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Catherine Catherine said: " I'm surprised to say it, but I'm *so not a fan of this. And I liked Haig's How to Stop Time very much--enough that I immediately checked out another of his books. To me, this seemed too close a riff on Humbert Humbert speech. And it's unrelentingly d ...more "

 
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Bohumil Hrabal
“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
Bohumil Hrabal

Marcus Aurelius
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Nell Zink
“College girls on the road! One-night stands! Lee felt like an Austro-Hungarian emperor attended on his deathbed by flappers. He felt them stealing his life—literally going back in time and taking, through their incoherent lifestyles, the little he had struggled so hard to attain.”
Nell Zink, Mislaid

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.”
Mary Hemingway

Annie Dillard
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

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