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Eventually, even Mom acknowledged that I’d done all right. ‘No one expected you to amount to much,’ she told me. ‘Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you ...more
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Алексей Сальников
“Его всегда поражала деятельность ребятни на детской площадке. В ней не было смысла, делать среди деревянных домиков, горок и наклоненной временем шведской стенки было нечего, но дети находили, чем заняться, — и потому казались компанией сумасшедших, видящих то, чего нет, или кататонически застопоренных каким-либо занятием, вроде сосредоточенного копания снега лопаткой, бе́га по кругу и однообразных пинков в веранду. Когда выяснилось, что Игорь забирает сына пораньше, все дети замолчали и стали смотреть на них с сыном, как зомби, прервавшие свои разброд и шатание в ответ на подозрительный звук человеческого кашля.”
Алексей Сальников, Отдел

Elif Batuman
“There was a poem with that mood by Pasternak: “Don’t sleep, don’t sleep, artist.” It sounded better in Russian, because the word for “artist” had three syllables, it was an amphibrach, like “spaghetti,” or “appendix.” Don’t sleep, don’t sleep, gorilla, I thought as I went down the elevator to the subway platform.”
Elif Batuman, The Idiot

Sally Rooney
“Afterward I lay on my side with A Critique of Postcolonial Reason propped half-open on the pillow beside me. Occasionally I lifted a finger to turn the page and allowed the heavy and confusing syntax to drift down through my eyes and into my brain like fluid. I'm bettering myself, I thought. I'm going to become so smart that no one will understand me.”
Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

Elif Batuman
“From Oleg Cassini's memoirs... I learned that Cassini had also suffered from insomnia. One night, he woke from uneasy dreams with the opening of Dante's Inferno setting off 'a clamorous tumult in [his] subconscious: "Midway the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark forest."' When I read these terrible words, chills ran up my arms. I knew 'midway the journey' was supposed to mean midlife crisis. But it seemed to me one had always been midway the journey of our life, and would be maybe right up until the moment of death.”
Elif Batuman, The Idiot

Elif Batuman
“Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about to start.”
Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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