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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
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”
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“No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”
― The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
― The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
“She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane. ”
― Like Life
― Like Life
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so...”
― The Hours
― The Hours
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