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“All men have a legend because of death. Humanity wasn't legendary any longer: it was a myth.”
― Hocus Bogus
― Hocus Bogus
“In his diabolic solitude, only the possibility of love could awake the libertine to perfect, immaculate terror. It is in this holy terror of love that we find, in both men and women themselves, the source of all opposition to the emancipation of women.”
― The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
― The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
“Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.”
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“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’
Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
― The Secret History
Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
― The Secret History
“A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts. But really a novel goes as dreams go in sleeping at night and some dreams are like anything and some dreams are like something and some dreams change and some dreams are quiet and some dreams are not. And some dreams are just what any one would do only a little different always just a little different and that is what a novel is.”
― How Writing Is Written : Volume II of the Previously Uncollected Writings of Gertrude Stein
― How Writing Is Written : Volume II of the Previously Uncollected Writings of Gertrude Stein
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Hobart’s 2024 Year in Books
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