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“The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.”
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“I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.”
― 2666
― 2666
“Still, American television is full of smiles and more and more perfect-looking teeth. Do these people want us to trust them? No. Do they want us to think they're good people? No again. The truth is they don't want anything from us. They just want to show us their teeth, their smiles, and admiration is all they want in return. Admiration. They want us to look at them, that's all. Their perfect teeth, their perfect bodies, their perfect manners, as if they were constantly breaking away from the sun and they were little pieces of fire, little pieces of blazing hell, here on this planet simply to be worshipped.”
― 2666
― 2666
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