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“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
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“The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.”
― Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
― Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
“You sort of underestimate the human being when you say that every least thing that is an abstract experience is spiritual. It isn't. It's just your real self. You can be capable of fantastic abstract experiences, right in this life.”
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“When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.”
― The Land of Green Plums
― The Land of Green Plums
“When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.”
― My Mortal Enemy
― My Mortal Enemy
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