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“Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.”
― How to Be Good
― How to Be Good
“What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'--not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite), but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style.”
― Experience
― Experience
“Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.”
― The Brothers K
― The Brothers K
“I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.”
― Bartleby the Scrivener
― Bartleby the Scrivener
Absurdism in Fiction
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Springing out of the philosophies of Camus and Kierkegaard, this group embraces the stories and novels where the absurd is played out before us. We se ...more
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