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"I don’t quite know how Groff does it. These stories are so layered and play with time so expertly that characters’ entire lives are suggested, all within the space of a couple dozen pages. I’ve reread some of them to study and savour how she’s constructed them." — Mar 25, 2026 06:25PM
"I don’t quite know how Groff does it. These stories are so layered and play with time so expertly that characters’ entire lives are suggested, all within the space of a couple dozen pages. I’ve reread some of them to study and savour how she’s constructed them." — Mar 25, 2026 06:25PM
“And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."
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(on Lillian Hellman)”
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“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
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