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I can see why DFW doesn't think highly of this collection. Very hit and miss; raw. This is strictly for serious fans.
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"This hasn't been my favorite DFW book. Almost to the end..." — Feb 25, 2014 06:49PM
"This hasn't been my favorite DFW book. Almost to the end..." — Feb 25, 2014 06:49PM
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"Morris's attention to minutiae is both astonishing and excessive. Nobody beats dead horses longer than this guy." — Sep 28, 2014 07:46PM
"Morris's attention to minutiae is both astonishing and excessive. Nobody beats dead horses longer than this guy." — Sep 28, 2014 07:46PM
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"I'm not entirely sure if I like Toni Morrison's style. Her storytelling can be obtuse or obfuscating, which I think is intentional. But then she also has such beautifully written passages, like the passage about husking corn and sexuality, that you can resist her. It's weird. I don't really want to pick this book up sometimes, but I also don't really want to put it down." — Oct 16, 2017 12:04PM
"I'm not entirely sure if I like Toni Morrison's style. Her storytelling can be obtuse or obfuscating, which I think is intentional. But then she also has such beautifully written passages, like the passage about husking corn and sexuality, that you can resist her. It's weird. I don't really want to pick this book up sometimes, but I also don't really want to put it down." — Oct 16, 2017 12:04PM
“He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.”
― City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s
― City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s
“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
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