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“Writers do not write what they want, they write what they can. When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who’d briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life. And now, when I finish a long day of CNN-related fear and loathing mixed with eyeballing my own resolutely white screen, I do not crawl into bed with 500-page comic novels about “multicultural” London. I read Carver. Julio Cortázar. Amis’s essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn’t sound like me.”
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“It hurts to look at what you can't have”
― On Beauty
― On Beauty
“This was one of the little ways in which he said sorry. They were meant to add up each day.”
― On Beauty
― On Beauty
“There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route.”
― NW
― NW
“Archie says -Science- the same way he says -Modern-, as if someone has lent him the words and made him swear not to break them.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
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