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“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings. Is it a stand-in-a symbol-for another idea? Does it fit into a larger, more hidden, metaphor?”
― Thirteen Reasons Why
― Thirteen Reasons Why
“Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.”
― Arguably: Selected Essays
― Arguably: Selected Essays
“Everyone is picking up on the most minute incidents as if they are metaphors for life itself. Everybody's life becomes more fabulous, every minute, than the most fabulous book.”
― The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
― The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
“But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past? Will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for personal accounts of individuals not so different from themselves? By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kinds of personal detachment from a history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it?”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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