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I'm somewhat embarrassed to find myself lately writing about so many books I'm not finishing. Usually, I just change the status of these unfinished books to "Want to Read" and move on, hoping nobody notices that I'm failing to complete half of what I
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I'm finding the first 100 pages of this cradle to the grave Highsmith bio much more interesting than the little of her fiction that I've read. Highsmith seems to have kept diaries and recorded her thoughts on an almost daily basis practically from th
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Richard Oosse said:
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8/19/2026:About a quarter of the way through this book and one or two thoughts:
It's great fun seeing Bond get sent to a health clinic for a 2 week stay to dry out from all his terrible habits of smoking, drinking and eating terribly.
But the introduct ...more "
“So she made no secret about being gay?"
"Why should she?" the little old lady asked. "Nobody would care but a bunch of stuffy old men.”
― Rough Country
"Why should she?" the little old lady asked. "Nobody would care but a bunch of stuffy old men.”
― Rough Country
“At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he’d been a mime, odds are he’d already be dead.”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho
“There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing. ”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho
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