People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.
Was this the triumph of self-knowledge: to suffer more lucidly?
So much road and so few places, so much friendliness and so little intimacy, so much flavour and so little taste.
Nevertheless, she treasured the idea that the Fauberts were connected to the earth in some wholesome way that the rest of us had forgotten.
You can only give things up once they start to let you down.
Rome wasn’t deconstructed in a day.
After less than a year together they now slept in separate rooms because Victor's snoring, and nothing else about him, kept her awake at night.
Experience of love is that you get excited thinking that someone can mend your broken heart, and then you get angry when you realize that they can’t. A certain economy creeps into the process and the...
The way other people felt about love, he felt about heroin, and he felt about love the way other people felt about heroin: that it was a dangerous and incomprehensible waste of time.
Made him more conscious of how little experience he had of saying what he meant.
Why had he said, ‘Some combination of pride and terror’? Did he still think it was uncool to admit to any enthusiasm, even in front of his greatest friend?
Other people knew what they were meant to say, knew what they were meant to mean, and other people still - otherer people - knew what the other people meant when they said it.
Earl, who seemed to be in an almost perpetual state of amazement at the things he said, shook his head again.
Nevertheless,
He had only just made the Elysian deadline; hanging onto the typescript until the last moment in case there was something still to be done; two sentences turned into one, one sentence broken into two,...
It was unbelievable, there was the dry-cleaning ticket again. There must be more than one.
But that's what the English mean, isn't it, when they say, He was very philosophical about it? They mean that someone stopped thinking about something.
One seldom knows whether perseverance is noble or stupid until it’s too late.
The drive rose sharply to the left of the steps to a circle of flat ground where her maroon Buick was parked under an umbrella pine. It looked preposterous, stretched out on its white-walled tyres aga...
He had become so caught up in building sentences that he had almost forgotten the barbaric days when thinking was like a splash of color landing on a page.
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