“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
― Illness as Metaphor
― Illness as Metaphor
“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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