“It’s possible to feel the horror of something and to accept it all at the same time. How else could we cope with being alive?”
- Sundial by Catriona Ward

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“I saw the bumpy shape of my skull, I saw myself shorn and revealed. I wandered in a dream around the city, glimpsing in shop windows a strange creature with my face.”
- Monkey Grip by Helen Garner

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"What inability prevents, purity considers legitimate. The purity of certainty, the perfection of the mind."
- On Tangled Paths by Theodor Fontane

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“Life is just a premature reaction to death.”
- The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes

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“When composing a story, withhold the essential information—do not mention whatever it is that causes the characters to act as they do.”
- The New York Stories by John O'Hara

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"Dream, and agitate."
- Paris on the Brink by Mary McAuliffe

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“When women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be..."
- City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

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“Writers are monsters, really. We eat everything we see.”
- Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward

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“He resisted the urge to let satire ring through his voice.”
- Damned If I Do by Percival Everett

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“People are always saying the humanities are dead so it's strange how many conferences there are.”
- Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada

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“Shame had entered the garden, making him more painfully estranged from his own body”
- The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing

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“She was enough of a Californian to resent being called an American.”
- Babycakes by Armistead Maupin

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“I suddenly thought again: as a writer, you’re always hearing things that aren’t there.”
- The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

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“The reason I survived when others died is my business. War is rarely tidy, never clean. We all know that.”
- Last Days in Cleaver Square by Patrick McGrath

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“Sometimes when I find out what's on other people's minds I honestly wonder if we all live on totally separate planets.”
- Three Days in June by Anne Tyler

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"To wander as one wishes, take one’s fill of nature’s beauty, perfect art, and thrill – There’s happiness!”
- Selected Poetry by Alexander Pushkin

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“When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.”
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

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“There is a trail of anger flowing through my bloodline, from my great-grandmother, to my grandmother, to my mother, to me.”
- The Harpy by Megan Hunter

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“Dead is the most alone you can be.”
- Ghostly by Audrey Niffenegger

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“External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.”
- The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

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