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- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
- The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not…
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from,…
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your…
- You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have…
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to…
- You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.
- Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.
- Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.
- Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
- Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll…
- It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.
- There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to.…
- There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is…
- The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person,…
- As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to…
- I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.
- No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more…
- I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet…
- All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's…
- When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away.…
- What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only…
- at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits…
- A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if…
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