“I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?”
― A Writer's Diary
― A Writer's Diary
“I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.”
― NW
― NW
“...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
“But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”
― How to Be Alone
― How to Be Alone
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