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“But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself.”

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David Foster Wallace

American novelist known for his unique literary style and profound insights into modern life. His works include 'Infinite Jest' and 'The Broom of the System'. more

“Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life.”

Source: The Walter De La Mare Omnibus: Henry Brocken ; The Return ; Memoirs of a Midget

“What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.”

Haunting Riddle

Book:The Return

Source: The Return

“Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.”

Men Common Angel Herds Thickets

Book:The Return

Source: The Return

“After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.”

Men Lying Behinds Fronts Boxes Every Man Ghost Chinese Ancestor Nests Oaks Horde Acorns

Book:The Return

Source: The Return

“Too many cooks spoil the broth”

Food Chinese Cooks Contradictory Spoil Contradicting Proverbs Wisdom Chinese Proverb Spanish Proverb Too Much Of A Good Thing Cooks In The Kitchen Haste Makes Waste Have Your Cake And Eat It Too Honor Among Thieves More The Merrier

Book:The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon

Source: The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon

“It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He’d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he’d always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him. His heart had been right. There was only one.”

Heart Made Two Found Felt Perfect Attraction Remarkable Mystical Soulmate Inexplicable My Soul Mate Perfect Woman

Author:Julia Quinn

“An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.”

Hours Lifetime Terror Timidity

Book:The Return

Source: The Return

“He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted.”