Lukasz Pruski
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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”
― An Unnecessary Woman
― An Unnecessary Woman
“Now, if others will rid the earth of vanity, ignorance, and want, mankind can live happily ever after.”
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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.”
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“People are trying so hard to live through their children. And the children keep trying so hard to live up to their parents, or live them down. Everybody's living through or for or against somebody else. It doesn't make too much sense, and it isn't working too well.”
― The Far Side of the Dollar
― The Far Side of the Dollar
“[T]he pain was unspeakable, worse than reading the collected works of Edith Wharton.”
― Hounded
― Hounded
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