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“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
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“So many books, so little time.”
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“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
“You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness."
Madness doubled is marriage
I added
when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce
a golden rule.”
― The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Madness doubled is marriage
I added
when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce
a golden rule.”
― The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
“All myth is an enriched pattern,
a two-faced proposition,
allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars.
And from the true lies of poetry
trickled out a question.
What really connects words and things?”
― The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
a two-faced proposition,
allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars.
And from the true lies of poetry
trickled out a question.
What really connects words and things?”
― The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
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