“In retelling these events, I have fought against a tendency to sentimentalize Julian, to make him seem very saintly—basically to falsify him—in order to make our veneration of him seem more explicable; to make it seem something more, in short, than my own fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
“But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding
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