November 2011
30 posts
“I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
October 2011
31 posts
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“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else,...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I couldn’t explain my need to myself, and that’s why it was such a...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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“I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I...”
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“‘Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war,...”
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“We need much bigger pockets…We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough...”
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every...”
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I’d experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end...”
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“…I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought...”
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces...”
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“So what about skyscrapers for dead people that were built down? They could be...”
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came...”
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to...”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you.”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“The moral sense in mortals is the duty
We have to pay on mortal sense of...”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“Solitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care. My heart was a hysterical...”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“Welcome, fellow, to this bordello.”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking...”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“What is it that excites me almost to tears (hot, opalescent, thick tears that...”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“And what is most singular is that she, this Lolita, my Lolita, has...”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“I find it most difficult to express with adequate force that flash, that shiver,...”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with...”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“Exceptional virility often reflects in the subject’s displayable features...”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a...”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“There are two kinds of visual memory” one when you skillfully recreate an...”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She...”
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
