“It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all.”
― Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
― Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
“Now that I possess the secret, I could tell it in a hundred different and even contradictory ways. I don't know how to tell you this, but the secret is beautiful, and science, our science, seems mere frivolity to me now... And anyway, the secret is not as important as the paths that led me to it. Each person has to walk those paths himself.”
― Collected Fictions
― Collected Fictions
“I worry that this place, the solitude of my life in this apartment, in this city, has turned my memories monstrous. That loneliness can make once-beautiful things terrifying.”
― Bad Cree
― Bad Cree
“For irony—exploiting gaps between what’s said and what’s meant, between how things try to appear and how they really are—is the time-honored way artists seek to illuminate and explode hypocrisy.”
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“Meanwhile I am only twenty years old, and the days descend on me un-noticeably like dust, each one just like the rest.”
― The Copenhagen Trilogy
― The Copenhagen Trilogy
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