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Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?
... he was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.
The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
Truth be told, there is not one day that goes by when I don't fall in love with someone, with something.
I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment.
Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.
I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.
The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.
I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.
The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.
If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.
New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.
In 'John Henry Days,' I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.
For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.
We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.
Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.
Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.
It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.
If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.
It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.
One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.
I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.
I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.
Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.
How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.
A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.
Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person.
The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
“It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”
As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.
As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.