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“[he] thought that war consumed people from the inside, leaving them without ethical substance; it reduced them to blurry and dusty scarecrows who simply repeated gestures learned at an earlier age of the universe. The blindness of the conflict left them like trees riddled with termites.”
― Rattlesnake
― Rattlesnake
“… then I realized that my brother’s philosophy books weren’t simple books … or rather they were, but only everywhere else, not in Chile in those days.”
― Una casa vacía
― Una casa vacía
“I see hope floating stagnant anchored by scorn.” – B.M. Batchelor, “The Mirror”
― From the Inside Out: Letters to Young Men and Other Writings
― From the Inside Out: Letters to Young Men and Other Writings
“With the warmth and pleasure that are the results of an intimate relationship with another human being, whether friend, lover, parent or child , comes the pain to which such intimacy makes us vulnerable. With hearts and minds fused we bruise as easily as we caress.”
― TREES ON THE CLIFF : A NOVEL OF KOREA AND TWO STORIES
― TREES ON THE CLIFF : A NOVEL OF KOREA AND TWO STORIES
“After a year, how many days in it will you never think of again?”
― Dhalgren
― Dhalgren
Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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