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like affecting an accent without realizing it. I was writing about Russians, so I wrote in the style that I remembered as Russian. I still write the Rostnikov tales in this style, which goes against the grain of much contemporary Soviet ...more
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Mary Crow Dog
“You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.”
Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman

John Banville
“The Stoics denied the concept of progress. There might be a little advance here, some improvement there—cosmology in their time, dentistry in ours—but in the long run the balance of things, such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, joy and misery, remains constant.”
John Banville, The Untouchable

Dashiell Hammett
“Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.”
Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

William Faulkner

Why yes he thought it ain't a place a man wants to go back to; the place dont even need to be there no more. What aches a man to go back to is what he remembers.

from... THE MANSION page 106

William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

John Banville
“Auden wrote somewhere that no matter what the age of the company, he was always convinced he was the youngest in the room; me, too.”
John Banville, The Untouchable

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