“And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.”
― The Orchid Thief
― The Orchid Thief
“Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.”
― Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
― Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
― Beautiful Losers
― Beautiful Losers
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