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Whatever this is, it's growing on me.

' "I know very well," responded Don Quixote, "whether or not I should be offended." '

New to this author, but twenty-five pages in and it's beginning to seem like this is someone who's every published work I need to read. Laugh out loud funny.

"We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening."

"And on each of our remarks a sort of transcendent harshness was conferred by the paroxysm of their stupefying insignificance..."

"Joe stands there, thumbs hooked in front of his bathing suit, looking at his girl, who leans lasciviously against him. Four thick black words appear in the sky and they radiate spears of light. None of the characters in the panel seems aware of the celestial manifestation exploding in terrific silence above the old marine landscape. HERO OF THE BEACH is the sky's announcement."

"It's very much to be wished that some mothers would leave their daughters alone after marriage, and not be so violently affectionate. They seem to think the only return that can be made them for bringing an unfortunate young woman into the world-God bless my soul, as if she asked to be brought, or wanted to come!-is full liberty to worry her out of it again."

"Real giving had its joy in imagining the joy of the receiver. It means choosing, expending time, going out of one's way, thinking of the other as a subject: the opposite of distraction."

"The movements machines demand of their users already have the violent, hard-hitting, unresting jerkiness of Fascist maltreatment."