Julia Hurley
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“I've always done just what I wanted.'
'I know.'
'I do feel such a bitch.'
'Well,' I said.
'My God!' said Brett, 'the things a woman goes through.'
'Yes?'
'Oh, I do feel such a bitch.”
― The Sun Also Rises
'I know.'
'I do feel such a bitch.'
'Well,' I said.
'My God!' said Brett, 'the things a woman goes through.'
'Yes?'
'Oh, I do feel such a bitch.”
― The Sun Also Rises
“Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in another. Mandolins are tuned G D A E. The physical world has a tropism for disorder, entropy. Man against Nature...the battle of the centuries. Keys yearn to mix with change. Mandolins strive to get out of tune. Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worthwhile.”
― Miss Lonelyhearts
― Miss Lonelyhearts
“For the first time in his life, he is forced to examine the values by which he lives. This examination shows him that he is the victim of the joke and not its perpetrator.”
― Miss Lonelyhearts
― Miss Lonelyhearts
“It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go
“He read it for the same reason that an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”
― Miss Lonelyhearts
― Miss Lonelyhearts
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