“That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”
― Stranger than Fiction
― Stranger than Fiction
“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― The Pleasure of the Text
― The Pleasure of the Text
“I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon. ”
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“Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
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