Marguerite Duras said…
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Men like women who write. Even though they don’t say so. A writer is a foreign country.
Truth from Marguerite Duras. What man wouldn’t like a woman who writes?
Men like women who write. Even though they don’t say so. A writer is a foreign country.
Truth from Marguerite Duras. What man wouldn’t like a woman who writes?
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one… . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil… . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.
Kurt Vonnegut, on telling his wife that he is going out to buy an envelope. Ironically posted and read via computer. Sorry Kurt! I’ll go outside now and play.
The man on the rock had pitched five outs in the losing game, and had given up two runs on a single. But he’d inherited loaded bases. The story of his life. The story of all our lives.
– David James Duncan, from The Brothers K. In honor of the baseball postseason starting tomorrow.
(From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, one badass benevolent emperor.)