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López muttered and took out his key ring, and they walked through a minuscule vestibule and into the living room, which had a fish tank. The curtains were drawn tight, and it wasn’t until Montserrat was right next to the tank that she
What should have been modern EAP on cinematic steroids was so deliberately coy, it became pointless.
“Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?”
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“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
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“LA is the me city, Ruby said, and New York is the you city. In LA it's fuck me. In New York it's fuck you.”
― In the City of Shy Hunters
― In the City of Shy Hunters
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
― The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
“Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences--what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)--that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot.”
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