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“Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic," Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.”
“Your memory is a monster; you forgetit doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from youand summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you hav...”
“Your memory is a monster; you forget -it doesn't. It simply files thingsaway. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think y...”
“People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a kind of support. And who can blame them? It is just infuriating to argue with someone like that; b...”
“Because who can describe the look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticipate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past?...”
“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didnt know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didnt know he was a novelist ei”
“Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving ...”
“In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who...”
“In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?”
“In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken with remorse when they saw her. Only a novelist could ever imag...”
“You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.”
“When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?”
“but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.”
“Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.”
“Garp didn't want a daughter because of men. Because of bad men, certainly; but even, he thought, because of men like me.”
“Mother's intentions were always sound, never muddy; I don't imagine that she troubled herself to feel very guilty. But the Rev. Mr. Merrill was a man who took to wallowing in guilt; his remorse, af...”
“It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.”
“I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story. (David Copperfield)But all that night he lay awake because the phantoms of those ...”
“Keep passing the open windows.”
“Six-Pack didn't despise George W. Bush to the degree that Ketchum did, but she thought the president was a smirking twerp and a dumbed-down daddy's boy, and she agreed with Ketchum's assessment tha...”
