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"I was reading Auster's New York Trilogy, but took a break from it for this book. This far, this is just what I felt like reading. It's chaotic and a bit over the top in just the right way, as well as beautifully written and smart. I hope it continues like this. I do need to look up a lot of things while reading, but I enjoy that type of books." — Apr 07, 2026 02:37AM
"I was reading Auster's New York Trilogy, but took a break from it for this book. This far, this is just what I felt like reading. It's chaotic and a bit over the top in just the right way, as well as beautifully written and smart. I hope it continues like this. I do need to look up a lot of things while reading, but I enjoy that type of books." — Apr 07, 2026 02:37AM
“Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark - I'm on fire almost - I'm burning away into nothing - but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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