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“Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don’t enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist acquires instinctively—don’t go into your protagonist’s thoughts until you have something to say about his or her inner life that is more interesting than the reader’s suppositions.”
― The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
― The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
“Come then, pure hands, and bear the head
That sleeps or wears the mask of sleep,
And come, whatever loves to weep,
And hear the ritual of the dead.”
― In Memoriam
That sleeps or wears the mask of sleep,
And come, whatever loves to weep,
And hear the ritual of the dead.”
― In Memoriam
“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“The movies have always shown how elemental passions boil beneath the thin veneer of civilization.”
― Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
― Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
“In my photographic work I was always especially entranced, said Austerlitz, by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them, just like a photographic print left in the developing bath too long.”
― Austerlitz
― Austerlitz
Cfay’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cfay’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
230 books
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15 friends
319 books
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14 friends
1,924 books
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49 friends
153 books
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29 friends
77 books
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21 friends
1,115 books
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3 friends
831 books
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43 friends
92 books
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12 friends
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