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“How many lived in the fake versions of their countries, in fake versions of other people’s countries? Did their lives feel as unreal to them as his own did to him?”
― The Inheritance of Loss: The Booker Prize-Winning Novel
― The Inheritance of Loss: The Booker Prize-Winning Novel
“He spoke the truth. Rusty always spoke the truth. He defined truth as feeling, and when he said what he felt, he said truth. (Only he didn’t always speak his feelings.) He never lied. You don’t have to lie if you know how to withhold the truth.”
― The Room on the Roof
― The Room on the Roof
“Does a country fall into fascism the way a person falls in love? Or, more accurately, in hate?”
― Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
― Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
“The place for literature is built by writers and readers. It’s a fragile place in some ways, but an indestructible one. When it’s broken, we rebuild it. Because we need shelter. I very much like the idea of literature that is needed. Literature that provides shelter. Shelter of all kinds.”
― Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
― Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
“Not your ordinary guy, Nikolai Gogol," Mr. Lawson says. "He is celebrated today as one of Russia's most brilliant writers. But during his life he was understood by no one, least of all himself. One might say he typified the phrase 'eccentric genius.' Gogol's life, in a nutshell, was a steady decline into madness. The writer Ivan Turgenev described him as an intelligent, queer, and sickly creature. He was reputed to be a hypochondriac and a deeply paranoid, frustrated man. He was, in addition, by all accounts, morbidly melancholic, given to fits of severe depression. He had trouble making friends. He never married, fathered no children. It's commonly believed he died a virgin.”
― The Namesake
― The Namesake
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