It’s awful being a child, she said, simply, at the mercy of other people.
Il quadro mi ha anche insegnato che possiamo comunicare l’un l’altro a distanza di secoli. E sento di avere qualcosa di molto serio e urgente da dirti, mio inesistente lettore, e sento che devo dirtel...
I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.
I never took it out...though even when I couldn't see it I liked knowing it was there for the depth and solidity it gave things, the reinforcement to infrastructure, an invisible, bedrock rightness th...
He came up behind her and laid his hands on her shoulders; bending low, he put his lips close to the nape of her neck. How about a kiss for your jailbird brother? he said.She turned halfway, as if to...
For in the deepest, most unshakable part of myself reason was useless.
EVER SINCE BORIS HAD shown up with the bruised eye, I had built Boris’s father up in my mind to be some thick-necked Soviet with pig eyes and a buzz haircut. In fact—as I was surprised to see, when I...
During the next week, everyone noticed that my appetite had improved, even Toddy. Are you done with your hunger strike? he asked me curiously, one morning. Toddy, eat your breakfast. But I thought tha...
Does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end--and yet to know as well, despite all this, as...
Besides I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams.
Are you always up this early?' I asked him.'Almost always,' he said without looking up. 'It's beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.
And what does a person with such a romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics? He asked this as if, having had the good fortune to catch such a rare bird as myself, he was anxious to extra...
And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meanin...
I think politics is deadly to write about, frankly. If you have a political agenda and you set out to write a novel to prove that, say, capitalism should crumble, then it's going to be a really bad no...
The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequ...
I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.
«La morte è la madre della bellezza» disse Henry. «E cos'è la bellezza?» «Terrore.»
Won’t last, it’s
It would be a long, long time before I heard anything from Boris again.
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