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“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
“It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives.”
― Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
― Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
“Young enough to think desire alone shapes the world.”
― How Much of These Hills Is Gold
― How Much of These Hills Is Gold
“One of the greatest myths of addiction is that it’s interesting. There is a slight glamour in the beginning, a feeling of doing something wrong, of indulging in a weird world populated by ghosts who used to be struggling musicians but don’t make music anymore, or writers who never write. And then your whole life is getting high and being numb, and there’s absolutely no reason to leave your bed except to get more money. Your life becomes a triangle of elemental needs: get money, get drugs, get home.”
― Problems
― Problems
“What real riches are? I could spend this gold tomorrow and it would belong to someone else. No. I want us rich in choices, that's something noone can take.”
― How Much of These Hills Is Gold
― How Much of These Hills Is Gold
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