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“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
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“Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles, Westerns: all burned books.”
― 2666
― 2666
“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”
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“The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,
White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.
--from "The Moon and the Yew Tree", written 22 October 1961”
― Ariel
White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.
--from "The Moon and the Yew Tree", written 22 October 1961”
― Ariel
“It’s a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.”
― Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
― Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
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