“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”
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“I should have known that when men warn you to be careful, often they are warning you of the dark movie playing across their own brains.”
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“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
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“My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
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