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innashpitzberg9 октября 2014 г.
Put a novelist into the novel. He justifies aesthetic generalizations, which may be interesting—at least to me. He also justifies experiment. Specimens of his work may illustrate other possible or impossible ways of telling a story. And if you have him telling parts of the same story as you are, you can make a variation on the theme.
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innashpitzberg9 октября 2014 г.
The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos.
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innashpitzberg9 октября 2014 г.
“work’s no more respectable than alcohol, and it serves exactly the same purpose: it just distracts the mind, makes a man forget himself. Work’s simply a drug, that’s all. It’s humiliating that men shouldn’t be able to live without drugs, soberly; it’s humiliating that they shouldn’t have the courage to see the world and themselves as they really are. They must intoxicate themselves with work.
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innashpitzberg9 октября 2014 г.
Words, words, words, they shut one off from the universe. Three-quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
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innashpitzberg9 октября 2014 г.
Rampion objected to all hyperboles that weren’t his own.
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innashpitzberg9 октября 2014 г.
The thing is to know what you want and to be ready to pay for it.
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innashpitzberg9 октября 2014 г.
“Living modernly’s living quickly,” she went on. “You can’t cart a waggon-load of ideals and romanticisms about with you these days. When you travel by aeroplane, you must leave your heavy baggage behind. The good old-fashioned soul was all right when people lived slowly. But it’s too ponderous nowadays. There’s no room for it in the aeroplane.”
“Not even for a heart?” asked Walter. “I don’t so much care about the soul.” He had cared a great deal about the soul once. But now that his life no more consisted in reading the philosophers, he was somehow less interested in it. “But the heart,” he added, “the heart . . .”
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innashpitzberg9 октября 2014 г.
Sensuality and sentiment, desire and tenderness are as often friends as they are enemies.
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innashpitzberg7 октября 2014 г.
Better to remain rigidly and loyally oneself. Oneself? But this question of identity was precisely one of Philip’s chronic problems.
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innashpitzberg7 октября 2014 г.
His life with Susan was a succession of scenes in every variety of emotional key.
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