Poor George
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Source: Desperate Characters.A Masterpiece.
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“In the end you learned to live with things once you stopped talking about them.”
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“Do you think I'm only here when you look at me?”
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“She was thinking of the advantages she would have if only she were someone else.”
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“Sometimes he though her coolness not so much a cover as the thing itself, an emptiness”
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“And I don't go outside of the house if I can help it.”
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“You know there isn’t much to do in life once you fall though the surface of things.”
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“Women like Joe. They fall for him in that between-trains way.”
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Source: Desperate Characters
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Source: News from the World: Stories and Essays
Source: News from the World: Stories and Essays
“Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.”
Source: Western Wind
“My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.”
Source: Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
Source: Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
Source: The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe
Source: The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe
“The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.”
Source: The Slave Dancer
“Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.”
Source: The God of Nightmares
Source: The Village by the Sea
“A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.”
“You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.”
Source: The Slave Dancer
Source: The Widow's Children: A Novel
“A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.”
Source: A Servant's Tale: A Novel
“Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.”
“I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.”
“My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.”