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"This reads like a report. I feel like I'm working, not reading..." — Jan 05, 2026 11:45PM
"This reads like a report. I feel like I'm working, not reading..." — Jan 05, 2026 11:45PM
They could also be like my mother and father, who communicated exclusively by slamming doors.
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“I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.”
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“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― In a Free State
― In a Free State
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
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