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The Book of Night Women

by Marlon James

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The Robber Bride

by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

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Peyton’s Quotes

“When I hear a critic speaking of an author’s sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

tags: sincerity

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“I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

tags: beauty, memory

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“Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it --- on the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger.”
― Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

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“If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

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“Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average "reality" perceived by the communal eye.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

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