December 2010
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“While he sat, absorbed in his own recitation, I bent down and kissed him again...”
– From the third volume of Your Face Tomorrow, by Javier Marias. This is the end of a scene with Jaime and his father, who is aging and near death, and, as is often the case, can remember the past vividly, yet the present only vaguely.
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“Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this...”
– From William Gaddis’s 1975 novel, JR
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“Have you ever wondered why my essays are so much more intelligent than I am?...”
– Susan Sontag, as quoted in Edmund White’s memoir City Boy