We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.
America was supposed to be a place ruined and homogenized by highways, that that was its unique character, crass and vulgar sameness.
I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
Άρχισαν τα πηγαδάκια. Η Γκλόρια σέρβιρε το επιδόρπιο. Ο Ντιντιέ ακούμπησε το τσιγάρο του στην άκρη του πιάτου με τα αμυγδαλωτά, σκορπίζοντας στάχτες και τρίμματα από αμυγδαλωτά και επιμένοντας ότι ο Φ...
Whimsy is the answer to tears.
Lonzi said the only thing worth loving was what was to come, and since what was to come was unforeseeable---only a cretin or a liar would try to predict the future---the future had to be lived now, in...
Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.
Silent people can be misleading, suggesting profundity and thoughtfulness where there may be none.
I was not likely to join a cult. That was not the danger I felt in glimpsing the feet of the dead, the bucket from which they drank. It was the proven fact, in the photographed feet, that you could dr...
I trusted the need for risk, the importance of honoring it.
You have time. Meaning don’t use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don’t rush to meet it. Be a conduit.
What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty of time to think about this later. I thought about it so much that the events of that eve...
When I was little, skiing in the Sierras, I felt that I was drawing on the mountain’s face, making big sweeping graceful lines. That was how I had started to draw, I’d told Sandro, as a little girl, f...
It is easier to like difficult people when they are leaving, or already gone.
And then Giddle became cryptic, like, if you don’t already know, I can’t spell it out. That was when I first sensed, but then almost as quickly suppressed, something about Giddle, which was that there...
I was in an acute case of the present tense. P.30
La Mazière had met with El Extraño at a chicken-dinner-and-cockfight joint near the Havana airport, a place that proved even more vulgar than the concept had sounded.
He understood that this was the overseer's main skill, to recognize what was within human limits, but just barely. Within, but just barely was the optimum calibration, the unit of profit.
Να γοητεύεσαι σημαίνει να θέλεις κάτι και συνάμα να ξέρεις, κάπου μέσα σου, όχι σε κάποιο εμφανές σημείο, ότι δεν πρόκειται να το αποκτήσεις.
Δεν τον είχα φιλήσει αλλά ήξερα ότι θα γινόταν κι αυτό, και το ήξερε ότι το ήξερα, και υπήρχε κάτι σαν αμοιβαία χαρά σε τούτη την ολίσθηση προς το αναπόδραστο, κι ας μην ήξερα το όνομά του ή αν ο,τιδή...
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