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Bleak
“
I’m about to begin halfway saying that—
—that she was incompetent. Incompetent for life. She had never figured out how to figure things out. She was only vaguely beginning to know the kind of absence she had of herself inside her. If she were an expressive creature she would say: the world is outside me, I am outside me.
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― The Hour of the Star
― The Hour of the Star
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He didn't want to read the newspaper or listen to the radio anymore. He didn't want to be a grown-up. There are some people who are just no good at it.
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― The Lonely Hearts Hotel
― The Lonely Hearts Hotel
