AT THAT TIME in my personal life, I was coming to grips with the end of the world. The familiar world, anyway. Many of us were. Scientists said it was ending now, philosophers said it had always been ending. Historians said there’d been
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“Imagining is essentially creative; it is a bridge reconciling matter and spirit.”
― Primeval and Other Times
― Primeval and Other Times
“His appearance was intimidating not from any single feature but from a lifelong habit of presenting a formidable front to the outside world.”
― The Sicilian
― The Sicilian
“In order to direct, I learned to offer an image that I was being directed.”
― Empress Orchid
― Empress Orchid
“In every twenty-four hours there is always one which is full of anguish and self-pity and confusion and the desire to see other faces, but an hour passes quickly enough.”
― Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
― Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
“Now hardly anything seemed to matter except politics—the latest series of atrocities, which family had converted, who had offered money to bribe the Church, and, of course, the fateful night which was burned in their collective memory and which caused even those who had previously expressed a total indifference to politics to sit up and take stock.”
― Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
― Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
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