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“I don't have a thing," Tengo said, "except my soul.""Sounds like a job for Mephistopheles," she said.”
“You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.”
“It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust ones hearing to it.....The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.”
“His mind floated in the amniotic fluid of memory, listening for echoes of the past. His father, meanwhile, had no idea that such a vivid scene was burned into Tengo's brain or that, like a cow in t...”
“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.”
“Aomame raised her glass to the moon and asked, Have you gone to bed with someone in your arms lately? The moon did not answer. Do you have any friends? she asked. The moon did not answer. Dont you ...”
