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I just don’t want to be alone in my last decade, that’s all. I wouldn’t know what to think about all day long. I’d sooner have a woman in the same room—even one I didn’t love. But if Phuong left me, would I have the energy to find another?
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As a widower at 55 who doesn’t foresee myself in another relationship I know his feeling, spending my last decade(s) with no companion. I don’t mind being single but in many situations two is better than one. And I think about the nursing home thing. There will not be one.
“Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.”
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“and the whole place looked tired and discouraged, as though wearily about to shave and get dressed for a terrible evening.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“People make you pay for the way you look, which is also the way you think you look, and what time writes is a record of that collision.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“I don't believe there's a white man in this country, baby, who can get his dick hard, without he hear some nigger moan.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“pour le bon motif!”
― The Good Soldier
― The Good Soldier
Rediscover the Classics
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Rediscover classic books & join in our reading group as Eric Karl Anderson selects classic titles for us each month. Here’s what you do: Click Here ...more
Sam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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