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“I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.”
― 2666
― 2666
“If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.”
― The Writing of the Disaster
― The Writing of the Disaster
“I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.”
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“A story? No. No stories, never again.”
― The Madness of the Day
― The Madness of the Day
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