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- You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you…
- Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst,…
- Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New…
- I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen…
- He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger.…
- We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have…
- It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the…
- Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
- Your crown has been bought and paid for. All you must do is put it on.
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