"I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in."

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Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

Nicole Krauss

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“It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.”
“I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only based company - most profitable. They started a very idealistic, beautiful company in many ways, but they didn't have a business model.”

Source : "How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 17, 2016.
“As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.”
“I probably still havenâ€™t completely adapted to the world. I donâ€™t know, I feel like this isnâ€™t the real world. The people, the scene: they just donâ€™t seem real to me.”
“Assumptions are dangerous things.”

Source : David Baldacci (2011). “The Winner”, p.240, Pan Macmillan
“Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.”
“Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.”
“Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.”

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