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tall and slender with the toned body of an athlete, but bald and possessed of a long face short of handsome.
“As I reread it for a final time, it occurred to me that we are all unreliable narrators of our own lives, crafting stories about ourselves that omit unsavory truths and highlight our invented identities.”
― The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
― The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
“Hatred will never succeed long-term, humanity simply won’t allow it.”
― The Last Correspondent
― The Last Correspondent
“Miss Trixie was never perfectly vertical; she and the floor always met at an angle of less than ninety degrees.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within the larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“what if life is indeed all utilitarian and tethered to the ground, like the spindly goat of one of their neighbors, circling the pole, day after day, over the dusty grass of the yard?”
― A Train to Moscow
― A Train to Moscow
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