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- The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I…
- If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing,…
- It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else…
- There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics…
- I hate Gucci,' said Francis. 'Do you?' said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. 'Really? I think it's rather grand.' 'Come on, Henry.' 'Well, it's…
- It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down,…
- And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus,…
- When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.
- The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
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