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“The demented strutting of a dumb bird in the moonlight.”
― The Savage Detectives
― The Savage Detectives
“Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.”
― The Savage Detectives
― The Savage Detectives
“The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be…. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.”
― Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth
― Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth
“It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.”
― Lonesome Dove
― Lonesome Dove
“I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world, including many prose writers, doesn't recognize as discipline. It is, though. It's the discipline to endure hours that you refuse to fill with anything but the possibility of poetry, though you may in fact not be able to write a word of it just then, and though it may be playing practical havoc with your life. It's the discipline of preparedness.”
― Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet
― Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet
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