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“The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.”
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“It is the nature of things to be seen only once, As they happen along, bumping into each other, getting along.”
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“She realized she wasn't old at all. You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.”
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“The soul is one's own affair from the beginning to the end. What is the soul? When I was a child I thought it was a little ghostly bean, kidney-shaped. I don't know why. Now I think of it as the man I am with when I am alone.”
― The Tiger in the Smoke
― The Tiger in the Smoke
“It is hard to find California now, unsettling to wonder how much of it was merely imagined or improvised; melancholy to realize how much of anyone’s memory is no true memory at all but only the traces of someone else’s memory, stories handed down on the family network.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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