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“She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were bad not-truths, even, but he nodded, and tried to convince himself to be convinced, tried to believe her, because he knew that the origin of the story is always an absence and he wanted to live among presences.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
“Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.”
― The Portrait of a Lady
― The Portrait of a Lady
“When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand.”
― The Poems of Marianne Moore
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand.”
― The Poems of Marianne Moore
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