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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.”
― In the Skin of a Lion
― In the Skin of a Lion
“Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.”
― Stardust
― Stardust
“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
― The Call of the Wild
― The Call of the Wild
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