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“Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book — literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination. ”
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“Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?”
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“Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.”
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“ Strangers ... are just your friends that you don't know yet.”
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“To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.”
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“... her own tiny one-bedroom. So tiny that when she neglected to hang up her terry cloth bathrobe, Nina felt as though another person had moved in.”
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“Rain, rain, pelted down upon us with unlooked-for fury.”
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“It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.”