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- I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
- All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
- A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
- We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the…
- All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.
- I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
- All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might…
- The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like…
- It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to…
- in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge.…
- I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
- I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived…
- Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle and…
- a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that…
- My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest…
- She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression…
- Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At…
- ...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.
- Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my…
- The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for…
- All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
- All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
- Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's…
- All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.
- ...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in…
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