“It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it’s the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.”
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
“No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“Then I understood I would never marry him. It's funny how one thing can make you realize something like that. One can be ready to give up the children one always wanted, one can be ready to withstand remarks about one's past, or one's clothes, but then—a tiny remark and the soul deflates and says: Oh.”
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
“And she said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tell us who we are and what we think and what we do.”
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
“You will have only one story,” she had said. “You’ll write your one story many ways. Don’t ever worry about story. You have only one.”
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
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