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“Try listening to yourself sometime, alone in a transient room in a strange town. The worst is when you draw a blank, and the ash-blonde ghosts of the past carry on long twittering long-distance calls with your inner ear, and there's no way to hang up.”
― Ross Macdonald

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“The French, than whom - it's a very than-whom people all round - none can be more vacuously orotund, are (the same ones) obligingly terse. On occasion.”
― Nicolas Freeling

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“How easy it is to love a child, how hard to love what a child turns into!”
― J.M. Coetzee, Age of Iron

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“Now, if others will rid the earth of vanity, ignorance, and want, mankind can live happily ever after.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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“I consider it a shame that most contemporary American writing seems informed more by Hemingway, the hero of adolescent boys of all ages and genders, than by the sui generis genius of letters, Faulkner. A phalanx of books about boredom in the Midwest is lauded (where the Midwest lies is a source of constant puzzlement to me, somewhere near Iowa, I presume), as are books about unexplored angst in New Jersey or couples unable to communicate in Connecticut. It was Camus who asserted that American novelists are the only ones who think they need not be intellectuals. One”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

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