Leander
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“A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.”
― Entrapment and Other Writings
― Entrapment and Other Writings
“As certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”
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“...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.”
― Chicago: City on the Make
― Chicago: City on the Make
“If I had known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night's last El.”
― Never Come Morning
― Never Come Morning
Leander’s 2024 Year in Books
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