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John of John

by Douglas Stuart (Goodreads Author)

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“What I have always found most comforting about these forms is the trace of hope I get as I'm filling them out. How they break your life down into such tidy realms, making each seem tractable, because discrete, in a way they never are beyond the white noise of the waiting room. You get that fleeting sense that you're on the verge of being understood, truly and fully, and for the first time, if you could just get it all down in black and white before the receptionist calls your name.”
― Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

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“That’s what Proust calls it. On those rare occasions when the miracle of an analogy had made me escape from the present. That’s the only real life, the only thing that makes you know you’re alive - the backward ache. That’s what music is.”
― Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

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“Le désir, dit-il, c'est avoir quelque chose à gagner, et l'amour quelque chose à perdre.”
― Camille Laurens, Celle que vous croyez

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“Each of us narrates our life as it suits us.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

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“The members of Joy Division likely weren’t meditating on Frank Lloyd Wright when they took the stage in Manchester but those flat-fronted black cotton trousers and narrow cut shirts didn’t come from nowhere. Peter Saville, who designed all of Factory’s records, understood in perfectly well: the iconic weight of black and white balanced against the release of splendour, in this case the dark magnificence of the music itself. Which might describe the tension of Protestant affect more generally: all guardedness and restraint until the eruption of an unextirpated beauty wakes us for a moment from the dream of efficiency.”
― Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

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