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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
“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
“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
“People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at them or thought about them the the first thing they saw was a huge big sign saying 'Housing Commission' or 'private school' or 'church' or 'mosque' or 'synagogue'. They stopped looking once they saw those signs.”
― Tomorrow, When the War Began
― Tomorrow, When the War Began
“No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone...”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
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