Showing posts with label Vintage Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vintage Books. Show all posts

 

"'In the meantime,' said Abrenuncio, 'play music for her, fill the house with flowers, have the birds sing, take her to the ocean to see the sunsets, give her everything that can make her happy.' He took his leave with a wave of his hat and the obligatory sentence in Latin. But this time he translated it in honor of the Marquis: 'No medicine cures what happiness cannot.'"

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Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez

 

"Well, these things wax and wane—detachment and tenderness, incredible tenderness and then incredible inaccessibility, that's the pattern with people who've stuck together as long as we have. What I'm thinking about with her isn't that. It's the love that exists because it's compartmentalized. The stolen moment that can't be sustained."

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Deception by Philip Roth

 

"...except in extremely rare instances people are pretty much like everyone else. They all say the same things, have the same names and wear their hair in the same styles...Below you will find the complete and unabridged record of the general conversation of the general public since time immemorial: 

a. Hi, how are you?
b. I did not. 
c. Good. Now you know how I felt. 
d. Do you mind if I go ahead of you? I only have these few things." 
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader

"Sure, sex is fun, but have you ever cleaned a dirty saucepan after soaking it overnight?...Sure, sex is fun, but have you ever had toilet paper brand loyalty?...Sure, sex is fun, but have you ever written a to-do list by hand?...Sure, sex is fun, but have you ever put your bills on autopay?...Sure, sex is fun, but have you ever put on new glasses for the first time?"

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wow, no thank you by Samantha Irby

"'Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window...[but] because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing.'"
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Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation and Change by Tao Lin



"I couldn't; something had congealed inside me, a conviction was rooted inside me, and although it was essentialist, that is outmoded and furthermore romantic, I could not get past it..."
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My Struggle: 1 - A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard

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