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“Be a little kind to yourself, please. If you can be whoever you want, wouldn't it be nice to be someone you liked?”
― Don't Sleep with the Dead
― Don't Sleep with the Dead
“Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.”
― Rabbit Redux
― Rabbit Redux
“...when you’re young you think you’ll always be young. Then one day you suddenly wake up and you’re over fifty. And the names in the obituary columns are no longer anonymous old people. They’re your contemporaries and friends.”
― Valley of the Dolls
― Valley of the Dolls
“You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
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...the perfect place for you to discuss your favourite authors from the early 20th Century. In the years from 1900 to 1945 the world of literature w ...more
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