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"I think that's all art is, a record of interior attention paid."

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My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Carl Phillips

 

"Lilya had never seen such men—she could not say she liked him in himself, but he evoked her interested respect."

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The Body of the Soul: Stories by Ludmila Ulitskaya

"[Barthes] writes, 'Waiting is an enchantment: I have received orders not to move...Am I in love? Yes, since I am waiting. The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game: whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely: I am the one who waits.'"

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Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World by Jason Farman

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