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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

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The Waves

by Virginia Woolf

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Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television (Console-ing Passions)

by Jeffrey Sconce

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Alex’s Quotes

“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
― Javier Marías

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“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“See the moon? It hates us.”
― Donald Barthelme

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“A process of accretion. Barnacles growing on a wreck or a rock. I'd rather have a wreck than a ship that sails. Things attach themselves to wrecks. Strange fish find your wreck or rock to be a good feeding ground; after a while you've got a situation with possibilities.”
― Donald Barthelme

tags: anything-can-happen, id-rather-have-a-wreck

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“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928

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