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"I’m actually enjoying this except the audio guy has an incredibly annoying voice. Tried to buy a paperback but it had an embarrassing cover based on the alleged movie and now I feel off-put. LOL. Will revisit!!" — Dec 20, 2024 09:10AM
"I’m actually enjoying this except the audio guy has an incredibly annoying voice. Tried to buy a paperback but it had an embarrassing cover based on the alleged movie and now I feel off-put. LOL. Will revisit!!" — Dec 20, 2024 09:10AM
“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.”
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― The White Album
― The White Album
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The Cassandra Clare-A-Thon is organized by Beth over @bethjune327 and Jamie over @jamie_leigh18 . It's a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01 am Th ...more
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