“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.”
― The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
― The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
“The only light was a standing lamp by his chair, near his elbow was a drink. He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.”
― All That Is
― All That Is
“All were merged into one smoothly working machine; they were, in fact, a poem of motion, a symphony of swinging blades.”
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
“If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
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