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“I’ll do anything!” Prince Ambrose declared. Privately, the witch thought about how tedious altruism is, but publicly, she informed the prince of the cost:
“I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen "King Lear," never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry, all woes forgotten, at a jolly reunion with all three daughters and their lap dogs. Never will Emma rally, revived by the sympathetic salts in Flaubert's father's timely tear. Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fixed for them. Thus X will never compose the immortal music that would clash with the second-rate symphonies he has accustomed us to. Y will never commit murder. Under no circumstances can Z ever betray us. We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We would prefer not to have known at all our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“A sort of unexplained sadness that comes each afternoon when the new day is gone forever and there's nothing ahead but increasing darkness.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“This morning I was assailed by such sadness at the velocity of youth.”
― The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
― The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
“I quit because when you give 23,546 hand jobs over a three year period, carpal tunnel syndrome is a very real thing.”
― The Grownup
― The Grownup
“The reward for goodness is just more goodness and sometimes not even that.”
― Pilgrim Bell: Poems
― Pilgrim Bell: Poems
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Gay and Lesbian, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, urban-planning, urban-design, public-transport, adhd, anthologies, anthropology, asexual, astrology, asian-american, asia, bisexual, buddhism, trains, butch-femme, lesbian, lgbt, intersex, sexuality, queer, queer-lit, gay, gay-fiction, transgender, agender, queer-studies, gender, cultural, japan, cities, urbanism, urban-studies, social-issues, mental-health, mental-illness, books-about-books, essays, lgbt-memoir, linguistics, sociology, communication, cozy-romance, cozy-fiction, cozy, disability-studies, esoterica, taoism, islam, muslims, dungeons-and-dragons, eastern-philosophy, ecclesiology, ethnic-studies, enemies-to-lovers, food-writing, found-family, gender-identity, middle-east, monster-romance, novel-in-verse, psychoanalysis, slow-burn-romance, slice-of-life, solarpunk, tarot, tea, turkish, wholesome, india, and asian-literature
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