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"Just like Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías, I now realize I am really comfortable with this writing style of 'Its just one never ending sentence, steam of conscience style.' Very cool." — Nov 05, 2025 12:39PM
"Just like Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías, I now realize I am really comfortable with this writing style of 'Its just one never ending sentence, steam of conscience style.' Very cool." — Nov 05, 2025 12:39PM
“It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“The dreams were eloquent, but they were also beautiful. That aspect seemed to escape Freud in his theory of dreams. Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about the things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“All traffic with the brains drowned realm is sorcery: Our bards, salvaging notions from their minds to plant in those of others, where they grow to splendours, else atrocities”
― From Hell
― From Hell
“The truth of the world is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of it's strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“Fear releases power. Man might be more tolerable, less fractious and smug, if he had more to fear. I do not mean fear of the intangible, the suffocation of the introvert, but physical fear, cold, sweating fear for one's life, fear of the unseen menacing beast, imminent, bristly, tusked and terrible, ravening for one's own hot saline blood.”
― The Peregrine
― The Peregrine
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