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You can value and care for things, but whenever you get attached to them, you will know it’s the ego. And you are never really attached to a thing but to a thought that has ‘I’, ‘me,’ or ‘mine’ in it. Whenever you completely accept a loss,
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“It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“because after a week without creation—the antithesis of genesis—comes a nightfall of alcohol intake, of cavortingfightingfornicating and other fundamental merriments, so in the scraped-up face of dawn I take to shakes and shivers and cries into an enemy pillow, growing mossy with hate.”
― Year of the Rat
― Year of the Rat
“I have greatest confidence in my writing when it approaches an insane condition in a sober and unstrained manner.”
― Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers
― Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers
“Det var noe uendelig trist over henne, selv om ansiktet hadde det alminnelige blide uttrykket. Akkurat som hun var lei seg uten å være klar over det.”
― Gjennom natten
― Gjennom natten
“There was a deep wisdom behind the orgiastic and hysterical aspects of ancient religion; there is much to be said in favour of this flinging open of the floodgates to grief. It might be argued that the decorous little services of the West, the hushed voices, the self-control, our brave smiles and calmness either stifle the emotion of sorrow completely, or drive it underground where it lodges and proliferates in a malign and dangerous growth that festers for a lifetime.”
― Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
― Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
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Anders’s 2025 Year in Books
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