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- I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again…
- All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside…
- All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.
- Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left…
- What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.
- Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing sentences.…
- He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in…
- How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.
- There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of…
- You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel…
- All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie.…
- All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in…
- Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
- All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time,…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle