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“It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up causes, or would I have simply knifed somebody?”
― South and West: From a Notebook
― South and West: From a Notebook
“Never forget the first three letters of confidence.”
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“To be a white middle-class child in a small southern town must be on certain levels the most golden way for a child to live in the United States.”
― South and West: From a Notebook
― South and West: From a Notebook
“We should all be so lucky to get from life a sunny-day swim in chemical waste.”
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
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This is an off-shoot for the in-person New & Noteworthy book club. We do meet in person monthly every fourth Thursday at BookPeople in Austin, Texas. ...more
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