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“I was full of outrage at an act in which the brittle shoppers in Liberty’s (where I went to buy socks) and the incurious drifters on Oxford Street (who got in my way) seemed all to be careless conspirators”

Alan hollinghurst is who Martin amis thinks he is. #thinking

“To be against the Beatles (middle-late period) is to be against life”

“Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins”

Final 200 pages… wow

‘My sense is that one learns more about the blotchy makeup of human psychology from Dostoyevsky than from Freud’
Guys, that’s almost exactly what I wrote in a review long ago!!!!!!!!

‘Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement.’

Do it scared

Rare non-fiction selection from me because I only brought two books to Nassau and, having read both and unable to go even three days without reading, am now forced to rely on my parent’s stock. My mother only reads novels set in Africa or non-fiction. My father only owns one book, Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth, which I bought for him. Ergo slim pickings.

Addictive as hell

How far through are you, Ana-Maria?

‘’Vinnie’s faults are easy to fall into for anyone whose critical faculties have been pronounced by education - and they need to be corrected because they do not, as Lurie shows, lead to happiness.” Ana-Maria, you seem to gift me books that feel specifically aimed at my neuroses.