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“Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise. Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person, as much a part of one’s being as laughing easily or having red hair.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!”
― The Edible Woman
― The Edible Woman
“Men do things. We can't help it. That's all there is to it. As you will discover in time, the primary choice every man has to make is whether he wants to be himself or if he wants peace.”
― The Illicit Happiness of Other People
― The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“I’ve discovered that there are two ways of losing your belief: some people lose God when they find themselves; some people lose God when they lose themselves.”
― The Discomfort of Evening
― The Discomfort of Evening
“I appreciated her vigor. I admired her choices though I wouldn’t have made them. Freak or fake, I’d been asking myself ever since I arrived at college, and here was someone bold enough to be both.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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