

“I can tell you're admiring my febrility. I know it's appealing, I practice at it; every woman loves an invalid. But be careful. You might do something destructive: hunger is more basic than love. Florence Nightingale was a cannibal you know.”
― The Edible Woman
― The Edible Woman

“...the single ingredient in American literature that distinguishes it from other literatures of the world is a kind of giddy, illogical hopefulness. It is quite technically sophisticated while remaining ideologically naïve.”
― The Hotel New Hampshire
― The Hotel New Hampshire

“I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote

“Please God, please Knut Hamsun, don't desert me now. I started to write and I wrote:
The time has come," the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes � and ships � and sealing-wax �
Of cabbages â€� and kings â€�”
― Dreams from Bunker Hill
The time has come," the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes � and ships � and sealing-wax �
Of cabbages â€� and kings â€�”
― Dreams from Bunker Hill

“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.”
― Demian
― Demian
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