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“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
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“Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Player Piano
― Player Piano
“At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
“You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money,
Love like you’ll never get hurt.
You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watchin’.”
― Come from the Heart Sheet Music
Love like you’ll never get hurt.
You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watchin’.”
― Come from the Heart Sheet Music
The Kindred Spirits
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Roberto Bolano's "The Savage Detectives"
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This group is designed to help readers share pleasure, pain, questions, answers, views, reviews and comments about "The Savage Detectives". ...more
Haruki Murakami's "1Q84"
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This group is designed to help readers share pleasure, pain, questions, answers, views, reviews and comments about "1Q84". ...more
Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain"
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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The blurb asks the questions about Humbert Humbert: "Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is ...more
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