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I went to San Francisco because I had not been able to work in some months, had been paralyzed by the conviction that writing was an irrelevant act, that the world as I had understood it no longer existed.
“It may be true that the dead betray us when they abandon us, but we too betray them in order to live.”
― A Luminous Republic
― A Luminous Republic
“In France they have two kinds, freedom and communist. In the U.S. they just have one kind: freedom.”
― The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
― The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
“...nothing is more precious than independence and freedom...”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“But it should be Soon. Already I defend hotly Certain of our indefensible faults, Resent being reminded; already in my mind Our language becomes freighted with a richness No common tongue could offer, while the mountains Are like nowhere on earth, and the wide rivers.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
“seemed we had so many things to talk about, and at the same time nothing to say. Perhaps one of the greatest surprises about marriage is precisely that: the inevitable formality, even when you know the other’s body and habits better than your own. Light filtered in through”
― A Luminous Republic
― A Luminous Republic
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