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“It’s not that that kills people,” he said, “it’s the fear. I mean, it’s okay to die. We remember that from our psychedelic days, don’t we? That we are divine?”
― Black Swans: Stories
― Black Swans: Stories
“It is like walking down a street and every so often someone beats the shit out of you. You mostly heal, but some injuries just don’t, and then you go out and walk some more, and someone comes by and beats the shit out of you again.”
― Problems
― Problems
“Sometimes I think that jealousy, like skiing, is only for those with enough youthful stamina and energy to endure it. As people get older, they finally give jealousy up, or at least they put it off for as long as possible until there’s such incontrovertible evidence”
― Black Swans: Stories
― Black Swans: Stories
“The rooms in those days were unfashionably sad enough to commit suicide in, and, in fact, that to me was the Château’s charm, that it didn’t have any objections to one’s committing suicide. Things since then had gone steadily downhill,”
― Black Swans: Stories
― Black Swans: Stories
“And so another season passed, and I hadn’t seen Brian, yet another terrible tangle with Peter went by, and anyone who loved me I avoided like the plague. Can things get worse? I kept wondering, and surprisingly, they did. Until finally I read this book by Fay Weldon, and she talks about a woman married to a depressed man and explains there’s nothing you (i.e., women) can do about them. And fiction got through to me where facts had feared to tread.”
― Black Swans: Stories
― Black Swans: Stories
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