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He emanated glee, exuberance, and wild joy. He had an operatic grandiosity that lit up and included everyone he met—including me, after about a year of his being fabulous and my resisting. He was a radiant creature. Even though he was bald.
there was something steely inside Kate that prevented people from being boring. Just her presence made people want to be brilliant.
He moved like a cat, and when he stretched, every muscle in his back sang.
I wondered if the tragedies in life are only about when you could have been great but weren’t.
Colors brightened like on mescaline around him, everything was funnier; life took on an arpeggio of mariachi harps. The world smelled of hot wildflowers on hay rides. Life without him was inconceivable, even though he was inconceivable, with his name and his hatred of old diamonds. Except very large old diamonds. He used to stare at me with worshipful admiration. Practically like I was a new diamond myself.
though from afar it looks like nothing but sex, from close up it is more like being trapped in a straitjacket and trying to turn that into art. A “good marriage” in other words.
men who could dance couldn’t talk, and men who could talk, hated dancing. Which put me at a grave disadvantage.
No wonder he only thought about sex; he never heard of mangos.
It’s amazing that the people you really love in your life are the ones who connect you with other people you really love.
She was trying desperately to fix herself in a setting where she wasn’t the worst one.
as far as I was concerned, if I wasn’t on Ritalin at least, my reply to the world was “no one is home.”
I always think something to look forward to is usually better than the thing itself. At least looking forward to something gives you the will to live.
With women, if you get rejected, you think, “Well, that’s life for you,” but if you’re a man, it’s a much more serious thing because succeeding is your life.
