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I’m always amazed at how books find us at the time we need them, as if there’s some omniscient, benevolent librarian in the sky.
It’s only temporary: you either die, or get better.
“Deep down, he’s really shallow.” “Deep down,” she laughed, “we’re all a little shallow.” “But he’s not kidding,” I insisted. And he wasn’t. Deep down he was seriously shallow.
But to be corrupt, you must once have been innocent—and I guess some people never were.
“The only thing floating around free these days,” he’d say, “is anxiety.”
As George Orwell said, “Fiction is history that didn’t happen and history is fiction that did.”
I did have one beauty secret. I went to sleep instead of staying up for three nights in a row like speed fiends have been known to do, because to me, staying up all night was just not right; if it was dark outside, you were supposed to go to bed.
