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“Do you paint every day?” asked Frank. “Everyone always asks that. I try to. But it’s hard.” “Why?” “Sometimes the process is like … Okay, you know when you’re tidying up a cupboard—” “Is that a closet?” “Yes, you American, a closet. First,
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“Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?”
― I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
― I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
“There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.”
― I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
― I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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