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Each of the several times I've gone back to re-read Wonder Boys I've taken something different from it. While I still remain in awe of Chabon's magnificent prose and expansive vocabulary its still the protagonist that keeps me coming back for more.Ha ...more "
As Nelson climbed the clanging flights of the narrow, cast-iron staircase, past one darkened floor after another, he fancied that if he lost everything—his family, his career, his place in the world—he could come live here, among the
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“the University being an asylum, a refuge from the world, for the dispossessed, the crippled.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“Oddjob turned and walked stolidly back towards them. When he was half way across the floor, and without pausing or taking aim, he reached up to his hat, took it by the rim and flung it sideways with all his force. There was a loud clang. For an instant the rim of the bowler hat stuck an inch deep in the panel Goldfinger had indicated, then it fell and clattered on the floor. Goldfinger smiled politely at Bond. ‘A light but very strong alloy, Mr Bond. I fear that will have damaged the felt covering, but Oddjob will put on another.”
― Goldfinger
― Goldfinger
“there is much that appears initially to be black and white and absolute, but later is revealed to be more gray than white or black.”
― Dreamland: An Autobiography
― Dreamland: An Autobiography
“I thought I was American, but in those days in Brooklyn, when you were asked what you were, you answered with a nationality other than your own. Since my parents were from Ireland, I was from a group called “Irish.”
― A Drinking Life: A Memoir
― A Drinking Life: A Memoir
“London had had a subway system since 1863, but New York had not yet gone underground for at least two reasons. For one thing, New York was built on solid rock, and tunneling through the Manhattan schist presented enormous engineering obstacles. For another, during the years when “Boss” Tweed had the city in his grip, Tweed and his “ring” controlled the surface transportation lines and wanted no competition.”
― Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address
― Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address
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