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Favorite essays/maps so far:
- When They Set the Sea on Fire
- Lockdown Louisiana
- The Presence of the Past
- Fruits' Fortunes at the Gate of the Tropics

Had me in tears by page 19

Goddamn, does everyone know how much I love Paul Auster?

Wowza, this book is so good

Ohhhh. I get it now

Oh my god. This book is so good. Carson McCullers is too talented.

"Wonderful music like this was the worst hut there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen."

Seriously though, can anyone write a scene with as much tension as Richard Wright?

The answer is no.

Oh, wow!

It's about time, eh?

Holy damn. This is quality literature. I'm in it.

"Achilles had hated the desert, the air so dry it grated, gnawed at you like an animal sniffing out blood. He said it was proof there was no Mother Nature, only motherfucking nature, and none of it gave a damn about man"

"Some things are good for us but too much is suddenly bad"

"Raw things make us extra alive"

This collection is so imperfectly perfect. I love it. Train-wreck characters being all crazy and shit. Awesome.

"Nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don't know what has become of you."

Oh, Kundera. Always making the abstract sound so simple.

"He knew, once and for all, that what a person does on earth matters. What a person does, in fear or envy or love or illness, reverberates forever through time, to eternity."

This book is most definitely gonna make me cry.

"Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time."

"People quite often ask me what I do with my time. I don't know what to tell them. Actually, I don't know what they're getting at. What it really is that I do't know is why they want to make me feel the way they are obviously going to make me feel when they ask me this."

"To be eccentric, all you needed was a turban and an affinity for ridiculously large beads or the color purple. To be exotic, on the other hand, one had to think not just outside the box but outside the world of boxes."

"To b eccentric, all you needed was a turban and an affinity for ridiculously large beads or the color purple. To be exotic, on the other hand, one had to think not just outside the box but outside the world of boxes."

"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity-it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing on ly a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud."

"Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia."

"We come from the water."