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“We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?”

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In this thought-provoking novel, the protagonist navigates a world where society has fallen apart, facing moral dilemmas and the struggle for survival. The narrative delves into themes of power, corruption, and the human spirit in the face of adversity. more

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Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham is an American writer renowned for his novel 'The Hours', which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. His works often explore themes of identity, memory, and gender. more

“It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.”

“the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart”

Way Heart Art Running Ordinary Art Is Concepts Destruction Substitutes

Book:sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems

Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems

“Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.”

Two Together Remember Felt Memories Space Imagine Butterfly Seventeen Outer Space Caterpillars

Author:Douglas Coupland

“My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.”

Information Increase Intervention Sustenance

Author:China Mieville

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