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“We cannot intervene in the rotation of the earth," said Delaura.
"But we could be unaware of it so that it does not cause us grief," said the Bishop.”
― Of Love and Other Demons
"But we could be unaware of it so that it does not cause us grief," said the Bishop.”
― Of Love and Other Demons
“I don't even masturbate to you anymore because it's too sad: a love story.”
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
“I miss the sex that I thought was love, but you knew was just sex: a love story.”
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
“When you are miserable, you envy other people's happiness.' It wasn't what I had ever expected him to learn in the Ministry of Home Security. And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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