Laura

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Laura’s Bookshelves

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play‎ (13)
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2022-favorites‎ (11)
2018-favorites‎ (10)

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In contrast, I realized that something was dead in my life, which was neither love nor admiration, but which has to do with childhood and the theater, and which is this naive capacity for adoration. I live without television, without radio, ...more

Narrow Rooms

by James Purdy

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Laura’s Quotes

“When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love.”
― Dennis Cooper, I Wished

tags: death, loneliness, love

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“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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