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I'll admit that I enjoyed it much more this time, but the last 20% of the book is still just awful. Fine, I'll go to Hell, indeed. I didn't realize that meant the narrative. |
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost it to the Revolution
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"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines."
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Walt Whitman
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L.A. Noir: The Struggle For The Soul Of America's Most Seductive City
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“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be asked to explain your life to you. We have splendid writers to do that, but I am not one of them. It is that business of being universal, a word hopelessly stripped of meaning for me. Faulkner wrote what I suppose could be called regional literature and had it published all over the world. That's what I wish to do. If I tried to write a universal novel, it would be water. Behind this question is the suggestion that to write for black people is somehow to diminish the writing. From my perspective there are only black people. When I say 'people,' that's what I mean.”
― Toni Morrison
― Toni Morrison
“Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
“From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.”
― Walt Whitman
― Walt Whitman
“And a word carries far-very far-deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
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