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I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.
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Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was…
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Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but…
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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the…
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By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out…
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My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I…
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At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city…
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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
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It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
— Marya Mannes
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Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and,…
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All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more…
— Knut Hamsun
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Not everything about me is cute." "That's true, some things are cute. The rest are sexy. Astonishing, agonizingly sexy. It's a wonder…
— Richelle Mead
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Being soft hearted often looks agonizingly similar to being soft headed.
— Rock Cowles
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