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“Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief.”
― Beautiful Ruins
― Beautiful Ruins
“If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken."
[on Twitter, July 17, 2012]”
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[on Twitter, July 17, 2012]”
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“Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.”
― Beautiful Ruins
― Beautiful Ruins
“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”
― Beautiful Ruins
― Beautiful Ruins
“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.”
“That’s only three.”
Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.”
― Beautiful Ruins
“That’s only three.”
Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.”
― Beautiful Ruins
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