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"Taking a break. Despite my admiration for Sebastian Barry, the emphasis on days without end may be the point of this disjointed “story”." — 10 hours, 33 min ago
"Taking a break. Despite my admiration for Sebastian Barry, the emphasis on days without end may be the point of this disjointed “story”." — 10 hours, 33 min ago
“He knows solitude. He knows its pleasure and its power. He knows it is a home you can occupy.”
― Vanishing and Other Stories: A Governor General's Awards Finalist Short Story Collection About Absence and Moving On
― Vanishing and Other Stories: A Governor General's Awards Finalist Short Story Collection About Absence and Moving On
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”
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“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
― Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
― Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
“You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
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