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“I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.”
“He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.”
“Sometimes you just find a culture that breaks your heart, she said finally.”
“Sometimes you just find a culture that breaks your heart,” she said finally.”
“Go. Go to your beautiful dances, your beautiful ceremonies. And we will bury our dead.”
“The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.”
“There is something about finding the balance to one's nature - perhaps a culture that flourishes is a culture that has found a similar balance among its people.”
“I felt in some ways we'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds and thousands of words...”
“Is it always that way with men, that first burst of love or sex the thing that binds you? Do you always have to harken back to those first weeks when just the way he walked across a room made you w...”
“You don't struggle with these questions?""No. But I've always thought my opinion was the right one. It's a small flaw I have.""An American flaw.”
“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything e...”
“You dont realise how language actually interferes with communication until you dont have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.”
“I asked her if she believed you could ever truly understand another culture. I told her the longer I stayed, the more asinine the attempt seemed, and that what Id become more interested in is how w...”
“That night at Gertie's when she asked me if I preferred to be the one who loved slightly more or loved slightly less. More, I said. Not this time, she said in my ear. I am the one who will always l...”
“Surely it is more civilized to kill one man every few months, hold up his head for all to behold, say his name, and return home for a feast than to slaughter nameless millions.”
“Brain ablaze. Feel like we are unearthing something and finding ourselves, knowing ourselves, stripping odd layers of our upbringing like old paint. Can't write about it fully yet. Don't understand...”
“You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.”
