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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“There are two kinds of romantics, my older cousin had explained, the kind who is constantly falling in love and simply needs a person into whom they can pour every thought, dream, and project, and the kind of romantic who remains alone, waiting and waiting for the right person to arrive, a person who may not even exist. It was too early to know which kind I would be.”
― Sea Monsters
― Sea Monsters
“It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know."
-from "A Man Asleep”
― Things: A Story of the Sixties / A Man Asleep
-from "A Man Asleep”
― Things: A Story of the Sixties / A Man Asleep
“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”
― At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
― At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now.”
― Almost No Memory
― Almost No Memory
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