“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Then
Scale by scale,
We strip off
The delicacy
And eat
The peaceful mush
Of its green heart.”
― Odes to Common Things
Scale by scale,
We strip off
The delicacy
And eat
The peaceful mush
Of its green heart.”
― Odes to Common Things
“Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.”
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
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