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“it is 1958 and men don’t really have words for feelings”
― The Long Drop
― The Long Drop
“Foreign experiences increase both cognitive flexibility and depth and integrativeness of thought,”
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
“She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married.”
― Hamnet
― Hamnet
“David was a loner. Although he knew many people, he preferred to relate to them one-to-one. Everyone knew a slightly different David.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“You think you know yourself inside out when you live alone, but you don't, you believe you are a calm untroubled or at worst melancholic person, you do not realise how irritable you are, how any little thing, the wrong kind of touch or tone, a lack of speed in answering a question, a particular cast of expression will send you into apoplexy because you are unchill, because you have not learnt how to soften your borders, how to make room. You're selfish and rigid and absorbed, you're like an infant.”
― Crudo
― Crudo
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