“Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.”
― The Great Automatic Grammatizator And Other Stories
― The Great Automatic Grammatizator And Other Stories
“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
― The Bell Jar
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
― The Bell Jar
“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
― Sula
― Sula
“Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."
(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.)”
― Five Novels: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations
(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.)”
― Five Novels: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations
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