October 2011
31 posts
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“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
September 2011
30 posts
“Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the thing that struck me most about...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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“Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“HOW ANGELS SLEEP. Unsoundly. They toss and turn, trying to understand the...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“My wife tells me it’s no talent to be a matchmaker for the dead, so I tell...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“Why do people always get named after dead people? If they have to be named after...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“At the end, all that’s left of you are your possessions. Perhaps...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned,...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“Only after they charged him with the crime of silence did Babel discover how...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon to use a piece of string to guide...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist. There are still those that lie...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“Having begun to feel, people’s desire to feel grew. They wanted to feel...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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“It’s also true that sometimes people felt things and, because there was no...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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“Just as there was a first instant when someone rubbed two sticks together to...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“It’s one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“‘You got a little happier and also a little sadder.’
‘Meaning...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“When your pants are down around your ankles that’s when everyone arrives,...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“It’s not that we’ve forgotten the language of gestures entirely. The...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant,...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“The idea of evolution is so beautiful and sad. Since the earliest life on earth,...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“Once Uncle Julian told me how the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti said...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“I want to say somewhere: I’ve tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“Maybe this is how I’ll go, in a fit of laughter, what could be better,...”
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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“Once we were sitting silently together. Suddenly one of us began to laugh. It...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“We never spoke of it after that. Just as we never spoke of our childhoods, of...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle 