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“and, sometimes,
from a lifetime ago
and another country
such a willing and lilting companion—
a song
made so obviously for me.
At what unknowable cost.
And by a stranger.”
― House of Light
from a lifetime ago
and another country
such a willing and lilting companion—
a song
made so obviously for me.
At what unknowable cost.
And by a stranger.”
― House of Light
“Listen," Hilarius said after awhile, "have I seemed to you a good enough Freudian? Have I ever deviated seriously?"
"You made faces now and then," said Oedipa, "but that’s minor.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
"You made faces now and then," said Oedipa, "but that’s minor.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
“I am driven to literary examples because you, the reader, and I do not live in the same neighbourhood; if we did, there would unfortunately be no difficulty about replacing them with examples from real life.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“But it may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual; so it may be that some of these events I describe never occurred at all, but only should have, and that others had not the shades and flavors—for example, of jealousy or antiquity or shame—that I have later unconsciously chosen to give them.”
― Peace
― Peace
“As a child she had been taught it was rude to say no, unless she didn't mean it. If she was offered another piece of cake and she wanted it she was obliged to refuse out of politeness. And if she didn't want it she had to say yes, even if it choked her. It was involved but understandable.”
― The Bottle Factory Outing
― The Bottle Factory Outing
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