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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5fa5c65 | The house on The Crescent, stepped into the hillside, had no face. In | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 35d05ac | The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from real was a folly that would call down tigers or hiccups to cure us of our recklessness. The effort was doomed, for it too much pointed past the intimate boundaries of our necessary fictions. | dreams ersatz fiction jonathan-lethem lies reality | Jonathan Lethem | |
| b1d4376 | As Bruno neared, Stolarsky stepped from behind the door. His feet and legs were bare. He held a pistol, loosely, and wore nothing but a thin T-shirt. The darkness beneath its hem revealed as a scribble of genitals and hair, his penis like a second sarcastic nose. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 12b4475 | Yeah, maybe you look a little less familiar yourself. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 6055599 | I am sure the grapes are sour. | Aesop | ||
| face830 | The morning's light danced on the spine of the new bridge, which towered like the guts of a cosmic piano. The same light that agitated the picture windows of the gaudy homes tumbled so recklessly into the seams of the Oakland hills. The | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 9df3678 | Each might have been a week except for night's failure to come and close the deal. When | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 5c7d336 | Her fiercest sincerities were translated by the male ego, on arrival, into daffy flirtation. (p. 24) | male-ego translated | Jonathan Lethem | |
| b09b11b | Chaos didn't know what this meant. He kept feeling like somehow, intending to travel across land, he'd traveled through time instead. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 8280d99 | She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it. | twentieth-century | Jonathan Lethem | |
| ba2a9b1 | Except science now tells us that luck is there whether you acknowledge it or not. And I'm afraid in your case I see the signs of a history of bad luck. Not even a latency so much as a full-blown case going completely ignored for lack of context. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| fcb852c | They were drones, men costumed in independent thought who'd become slaves of party groupspeak. (p. 4) | group | Jonathan Lethem | |
| 92d3686 | We were all four of us an arrangement around a missing centrepiece, as incoherent as a been less sentence. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 4244d59 | We were all four of us an arrangement around a missing centrepiece, as incoherent as a verb-less sentence. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| cae630a | You could harbor a man in your bed or your body, play on his nervous system like Paderewski at the keyboard, and not shift his brain one inch out of the concrete of dogma. (p. 5) | dogma harbor | Jonathan Lethem | |
| 95eff24 | It was entirely possible that one song could destroy your life. Yes, musical doom could fall on a lone human form and crush it like a bug. The song, that song, was sent from somewhere else to find you, to pick the scab of your whole existence. The song was your personal shitty fate, manifest as a throb of pop floating out of radios everywhere. | soul | Jonathan Lethem | |
| 533bdf3 | You can't be deep without a surface. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| d5081a0 | Laughing at "Rapper's Delight"'s no revenge, and anyway it wasn't your idea, and anyway it's . Dean Street's another story, a realm of knowledge unapplicable here. You've just about finished leaving Dean Street, and Aeroman, behind. If this means avoiding the one who protected your ass all through junior high, the one you once ached to emulate, the one whose orbit you were happy just to swing in - if it means leaving the million-dollar kid.. | growing-up music | Jonathan Lethem | |
| b78cfcc | Cocaine Suppe Mit Tittenschnakken, | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| af323d6 | Let him get stoned, since everybody must. | stoned | Jonathan Lethem | |
| ae0503a | The Hippie Parents weren't for all their distraction and funk, for their love triangles and LPs and antiwar demonstrations, illiterates...You'd find the books in the downstairs bathroom, or on their bedside tables, or maybe see them unwrapped at holidays as gifts, a cherished revelation passed from one to another, shared like a joint... | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 06a8cd0 | Like other names I censored lately, this was a vote against invoking monsters, against etching their reality into the air. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 8cc9236 | So I took my phone to a bakery and coffee shop called Some Crust and read Elena Ferrante at an outdoor table and hoped for some amusing college student to hit on me. I got hit on by amusing senior citizens instead. Perhaps they, like the Klan, had been lately emboldened. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 00f89e5 | Television had elected itself, I figured. It could watch itself too, for all I cared. I read my book. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 88c84f5 | on the one hand there's mansplaining, and on the other, there's the sound of a woman quoting the mansplaining to another woman. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 5f95a17 | The big Nazi cat went on raking up thread-loops from my trousers, seemingly intent on single-handedly reinventing Velcro. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| a4356a5 | To tugboat was to try Minna's patience. Any time you pushed your luck, said too much, overstayed a welcome, or overestimated the usefulness of a given method or approach, you were guilty of having tugged the boat. Tugboating was most of all a dysfunction of wits and storytellers, and a universal one. Anybody who thought himself funny would likely tug a boat here or there. Knowing when a joke or verbal gambit was right at its limit, quitting.. | jonathan lethem | ||
| 8e5c1ab | He didn't hide his teeth, which were bright yellow, like the van we'd unloaded. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| cce5cb1 | Thing is, for me a woman has to have a certain amount of muffling, you know what I mean? Something between you, in the way of insulation. Otherwise, you're right up against her naked soul. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 4a05306 | Let's say what we mean: animals are bled, skinned, and dismembered while conscious. It happens all the time, and the industry and the government know it. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a3c7b96 | In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. | Aesop | ||
| 2a6341e | It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. | Aesop | ||
| 7138d8f | He's got good reason to worry," said Del Rio. "Whoever killed Shelby got in and out of the house with the skill of a Beverly Hills proctologist. I'm looking into contract killers. I've got a couple of leads. We're going to break this one, Jack." | James Patterson | ||
| 015e6d6 | Love never dies | James Patterson | ||
| 5672b0a | The greatest known power in the universe is the resilience of man coupled with his intellect. He tinkers and tests and fights through to solutions. | James Patterson | ||
| b9154f8 | Writing bridges many differences. Kindness bridges many differences too, and so does a love of One Tree Hill or Lost or beautiful books or terrible movies. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 71aff03 | I'm not sleeping with him, | James Patterson | ||
| a317cce | Anytime I remember how I once disavowed feminism, I am ashamed of my ignorance. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 064e1e0 | It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. | Aesop | ||
| be80afc | When you succeed early at an endeavor, you convince yourself you will easily replicate that success. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 28fe4f4 | Forgiveness in families is a mystery to me, how it comes or how it lasts. | Alice Munro | ||
| 8c52b1d | In quel momento la nostra dolcezza reciproca era senza nubi, senza strategie, e i nostri conflitti sembravano irreali. Si era aperto un cancello, molto probabilmente, ma noi non lo varcammo. (La dama spagnola) | Alice Munro | ||
| 806f87f | The problem, the only problem, is my mother. And she is the one of course that I am trying to get; it is to reach her that this whole journey has been undertaken. With what purpose? To mark her off, to describe, to illumine, to celebrate, to get rid, of her; and it did not work, for she looms too close, just as she always did. She is heavy as always, she weighs everything down, and yet she is indistinct, her edges melt and flow. Which means.. | mothers | Alice Munro | |
| f6dc500 | Ecco Dotty, tirata fuori dal mondo reale ed esposta alla luce, sospesa all'interno della splendida gelatina trasparente che Hugo ha passato la vita a imparare a realizzare. Si tratta di un numero di magia, non c'e altro modo per definirlo; si tratta, potremmo anche dire, di un generoso atto d'amore particolare, libero da ogni sentimentalismo. Di un dono felice e meraviglioso. (Materiali) | Alice Munro |