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Shocking, sad ... obsessive. I guess I shouldn't be shocked; there are numerous stories reported daily on sex offenders. What shocks me I guess is the perspective the story is written from .... in the form of a confession. I try to find sympathy with
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“It was inconsiderate, she thought, how blandly people mentioned the future in the sick rooms. Phrases like next summer were always popping out; people made such assumptions about their own continuity.”
― Terms of Endearment
― Terms of Endearment
“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”
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“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“You will have only one story,” she had said. “You’ll write your one story many ways. Don’t ever worry about story. You have only one.”
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
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