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What's your favorite axiom? (The nerd pickup line,
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All fat people hated summer in New York: everything was always sticking to everything else, flesh to flesh, flesh to fabric. You never felt truly dry.
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Breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart.
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Again. Was it better to trust or better to be wary? Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal?
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An elegant mind wants elegant endings
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my father said the whole world seemed made of sound and nothing else.
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pg 674 "let me get better or let me end it
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I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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And now you've been so fucking spoiled by things coming to you so easily that you think everything's just going to happen for you.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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Experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved
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I was aware that I had been looking for him on every street, in every crowd.
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Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
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Sometimes, all he has to do is sit up, and he will be reminded, as if slapped across the face, that his body owns him, not the other way around.
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I knew that he had decided that Caleb was right, that he was disgusting, that he had, somehow, deserved what had happened to him.
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What is life for? he asks himself. What is my life for?
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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That's your dad talking, Mal. Your life won't be any less valid, or any less legitimate, if you don't have kids.
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I would rather have you suffering and alive-than dead.
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he realizes that this is the way it is, the way it must be: you don't visit the lost, you visit the people who search for the lost.
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Wasn't friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?
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Does he seem listless, out of sorts?
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It is always easier to believe what you already think than to try to change your mind.
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Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
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It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please,' I said.
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The easiest explanations are often the right ones,
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
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He got to see his friends differently, not as just appendages to his life but as distinct characters inhabiting their own stories;
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He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.
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After he had resolved this, he felt the fatigue overwhelm him,
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But he and his friends have no children, and in their absence, the world sprawls before them, almost stifling in its possibilities.
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Pg 685 And so home he goes, and he waits and waits for Willem to appear to him. But he doesn't, and finally he sleeps.
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I told myself that I was letting him keep his dignity, while choosing to forget that for thousands of nights, he sacrificed it.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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Harold sighs. "Jude," he says, "there's not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don't get to a certain age and it stops.
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We are so old, we have become young again.
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flibbertigibbets - and
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you have to be so genuinely uncategorizable that the normal terms of identity don't even apply to you.
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But if you act like you don't belong, if you act like you're apologetic for your own self, then people will start to treat you that way, too.
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The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.
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When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.
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You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
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I didn't intend the book as anything therapeutic and I don't think that's a novel's goal or responsibility.
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What must it feel like to be an adult and still discovering the world's pleasures? And
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S if lack of privilege were a competition that he was still determined to win, even in the face of another's clear and inarguable triumph.
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I felt I had taken someone who once knew how to draw a dog and turned him into someone who instead knew only how to draw shapes.
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It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn't have the energy to try.
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New York was populated by the ambitious. It was often the only thing that everyone here had in common. Ambition
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he feels his breath abandon him;
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But you need someone who can grow old with you.
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Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.
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Don't let this silence become a habit,
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The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
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We are meant to break you down, Dennys, his professor said. Only the truly talented will be able to come back from it.
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I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
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lunches at which everyone segregated themselves by rank and caste -
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The thought of seeing Malcolm and JB, of interacting with them and smiling and joking, seemed suddenly excruciating.
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Gentle in manners and voice, and yet in the courtroom that gentleness burned itself away and left behind something brutal and cold.
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Everything he has learned tells him to leave; Everything he has wished for tells him to stay.
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If he sacrifices his legs, he will be admitting to Dr. Traylor that he has won; he will be surrendering to him, to that night in the field with the
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Felt for a minute frightened by the jungle, its voracious appetite and ambition, its hunger to consume every surface it encountered.
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his parents huffing after him;
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It had seemed to him the ideal expression of an adult relationship, to have someone with whom you could discuss the mechanics of a shared existence.
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Oh, he thinks, if I were a better person. If I were a more generous person. If I were a less self-involved person. If I were a braver person.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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He has tasted anger, and he knows he has to control it. He can feel it, waiting to burst from his mouth in a swarm of stinging black flies.
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If you keep trying to find everything, you'll wind up with nothing. AMY:
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his privacy, his life, is still his
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The awful pleasure of hurling himself against something so immovable.
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Not having sex: it was one of the best things about being an adult.
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him - I was always happy to play the fool if I thought it might give him some pleasure -
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An artist, as much as a writer or composer, needed themes, needed ideas.
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They would never have demanded he be like them; they hardly wanted to be themselves.
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I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.
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All the most terrifying ifs involve people. All the good ones do as well.
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But what in life wasn't connected to some greater, sadder story?
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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This was what he loved about JB, he had thought; he was always smarter than even he knew.
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None of them really wanted to listen to someone else's story anyway; they only wanted to tell their own.
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How many societies can say this, that they have recognized all they need and have made provisions for it all?
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Life would happen to him, and he would have to try to answer it, just like the rest of them all.
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I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.
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Video, ergo est," said Laurence, suddenly. I see it, therefore it is.
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It had always seemed to him a very plush kind of problem, a privilege, really, to consider whether life was meaningful or not.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.
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Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.
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But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?
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He feels he isn't so much living as he is merely existing,
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