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"waiting for this "laugh out loud" funny promised by the book's description because so far it's just been depressing" — Jun 09, 2022 10:32AM
"waiting for this "laugh out loud" funny promised by the book's description because so far it's just been depressing" — Jun 09, 2022 10:32AM
“Vera said: “Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?”
So I told her why.
Because if I tell the story, I control the version.
Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me.
Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much.
Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.”
― Heartburn
So I told her why.
Because if I tell the story, I control the version.
Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me.
Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much.
Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.”
― Heartburn
“Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life?”
― Heartburn
― Heartburn
“Addison spoke in calligraphy while everyone else talked in scribbles.”
― Shadowflesh
― Shadowflesh
“Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but . . . also betrays his heart rate, his breathing.”
― Once on a Moonless Night
― Once on a Moonless Night
“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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