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'Just as you work out how to live you are betrayed by your own bloody body... In fact, it has been about your body all along - if only you had noticed.'

'Maybe this is what it means to be in love. You have to feel known. Or maybe known and forgiven.'

'Be careful not to outsource your mind'

'Doesn't love necessarily require some kind of delusional state? After all, surely only a monster incapable of love would tell a child the truth of the world.'

'I'm only dealing in the tectonics these days and everything else feels like bad acting'

'I remember that day most of all because I lost my father. He was right there, holding my hand; and then he let go.'

'The fear of incapacity is really a fear of not being able to wipe one's own bottom.... It's a threshold we do not wish to cross'

"How could a news source possibly be trusted if the author exaggerated to increase commercial appeal?" Sound familiar? And this is a question being asked of 16th century pamphlets!

Lipsyte's comic light touch makes the tradgic lives of his charachters a thoroughly engaging read. Love the little touches, like the triff sconce banter with the waiter in Deniers.

Harrowing first hand description of the shamble at the Battle of Loos in 1915 and one of the best accounts I've read so far of life in and behind the trenches.

Hard to beleive PKD was only 23 when he wrote these!

Absolutely essential reading for any music lover. With a fluid narrative Ross locates composers and musicians in the context of the 20th century, while his evocative writing ensures that you'll be enthused for the music he describes - at least enough to want to hear it for yourself.