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Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in l...more

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You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.

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You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

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But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and ...more

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...otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you w...more

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I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

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We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces on the edges of print.

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What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwis...more

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A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

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Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to be...more

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We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, w...more

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That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

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So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to ...more

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UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,there is birdsong,you can't get out of bed.It's so...more

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Potential has a shelf life.