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""Такая одержимость рано или поздно начинает действовать на психику. Ты начинаешь думать о том, хватит ли твоей жизни, чтобы прослушать всю эту музыку хотя бы еще раз и при этом успеть сделать для себя новые открытия. Своеобразный кризис среднего возраста музыкального коллекционера наступает, когда все эти вещи, которые должны дарить тебе удовольствие, пылятся на полках и вместо радости навевают мысли о смерти."" Jan 04, 2016 07:01PM

 
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Donna Tartt
“I could hear a gaggle of Americans, couples, laughing, saying their loud goodbyes as they parted for their respective rooms: old college friends, jobs in the financial sector, five-plus years of corporate law and Fiona entering the first grade in the fall, all's well in Oaklandia, well goodnight then, God we love you guys, a life I might have had myself except I didn't want it.”
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

Claire-Louise Bennett
“If you are not from a particular place the history of that particular place will dwell inside you differently to how it dwells within those people who are from that particular place. Your connection to certain events that define the history of a particular place is not straightforward because none of your ancestors were in any way involved or affected by those events. You have no stories to relate and compare, you have no narrative to inherit and run with, and all the names are strange ones that mean nothing to you at all. And it's as if the history of a particular place knows all about this blankness you contain. Consequently if you are not from a particular place you will always be vulnerable for the reason that it doesn't matter how many years you have lived there you will never have a side of the story; nothing with which you can hold the full force of the history of a particular place at bay.
And so it comes at you directly, right through the softly padding soles of your feet, battering up throughout your body, before unpacking its clamouring store of images in the clear open spaces of your mind.
Opening out at last; out, out, out
And shimmered across the pale expanse of a flat defenceless sky.

All the names mean nothing to you, and your name means nothing to them.”
Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

Ryszard Kapuściński
“A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.”
Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus

William S. Burroughs
“Death was in every cell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.”
William S. Burroughs, Queer

Stephen Fry
“Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world.”
Stephen Fry

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