Showing posts with label PenguinRandomHouse Canada. Show all posts
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"'I had the sense that it was all done on purpose, by some kind of agency. Not a God outside the universe, pulling the strings, you understand. But as if the whole thing itself were God.'"
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The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman


"...the writing of a book cannot, in my experience, be sustained by simple interest, it requires something more, it is generally the work of years, after all."
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A Separation by Katie Kitamura

"All he did was watch TV or talk on the phone or eat. He loved game shows and cooking shows. I'm not saying he was an idiot. He was just like me: anything good made him want to die. That's a characteristic some smart people have."

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Homesick for Another World by Otessa Moshfegh

"He concentrated not only on the objects themselves but also, critically, on the atmosphere that surrounded them, the erratically shifting phantoms of light and color that he called the enveloppe...But freezing the appearance of objects...was no easy task. 'I am chasing a dream,' he admitted in 1895. 'I want the impossible.'" 
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Mad Enchantment by Ross King

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