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We drank a glass of wine on the front porch, and the Thompsons made some generalizations about black people that made us feel uncomfortable, although I had certainly heard worse from my father and his friends in London. They loved Lucy and
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“The crisis of modern society is precisely that the youth no longer feel heroic in the plan for action that their culture has set up. They don’t believe it is empirically true to the problems of their lives and times.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“The smile that folded the puffed eyelids and creased the sagging cheeks was fixed and forced. I’d seen such smiles in mortuaries on the false face of death. It reminded me that I was going to grow old and die.”
― The Moving Target
― The Moving Target
“Once one had seen her eyes, the rest of the face grew vague, and when one tried to recall her image afterwards, only the piercing, questioning violence of the wide eyes remained.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
“The fish fanciers, sitting by their ponds and gazing into their depths, were tracing shadows darker than they understood.”
― Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
― Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
“One of her classmates asked a prisoner what was the worst thing about being there. “The first time they fuck you in the ass,” he replied, and this was the first time that she and her classmates learned about that kind of rape.”
― Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
― Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
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