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When Willie spoke again it was softer. Are you really going to do this? he said. Leave everything you have behind? Leave behind the person that loves you?
“I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“I'm not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together--it doesn't mean I know how to speak about the tings that matter most to me."
"But you're doing it now--in a way."
"Yes, in a way--that's how I always say things: in a way.”
― Call Me by Your Name
"But you're doing it now--in a way."
"Yes, in a way--that's how I always say things: in a way.”
― Call Me by Your Name
“The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”
― Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
― Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
“Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.”
― Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
― Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
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