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“Yes, [Philadelphia is] horrible, but in a very interesting way. There were places there that had been allowed to decay, where there was so much fear and crime that just for a moment there was an opening to another world.” —DAVID LYNCH
“It is our way of admitting we were weak and flawed, and that we made mistakes, some inevitable, others foolish, but deep within we appreciated beauty and poetry, too. Each historical artifact, therefore, is a silent plea from ancestors to descendants, “Do not judge us too harshly.”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
“but a story is a flute through which truth breathes.”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
“as she closed her eyes she dropped like a diver in a bell into the depths of sleep.”
― This Other Eden
― This Other Eden
“An army of tears lay just behind her eyes, but they refused to decamp.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“His party had given up on liberalism. They didn’t even use the word anymore. They said instead that they were “progressives,” as if any movement into the future was necessarily better than the status quo. The Left had an illiberal streak that no one seemed willing to talk about, and Frank could see it in his colleagues’ reaction when he refused to join in the rending of garments over advocating invasion.”
― The Index of Self-Destructive Acts
― The Index of Self-Destructive Acts
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