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"I was looking for a fun memoir, ended up with a pile of excuses for poor behavior veiling as a midlife crisis?" — Apr 20, 2026 09:26AM
"I was looking for a fun memoir, ended up with a pile of excuses for poor behavior veiling as a midlife crisis?" — Apr 20, 2026 09:26AM
“I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina and strolled down Swann's Way. It's a rewarding world, but my second one is by far superior. My second one is populated with characters slightly less eccentric, but supremely real, made of flesh and bone, full of love, who are my ultimate inspiration for everything.”
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“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.”
― Everything Is Illuminated
― Everything Is Illuminated
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