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“The first set had ended things. The second was just to let the air in.”
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“Each neighbor had a different curiosity, or jealousy: an opinion about which apartment is the best.”
“She would like to believe the appreciation of beauty is never a waste. But this does not an essay write.”
On a technique whereby “an insignificant detail given at the beginning of the novel reappears at the end, as though it had grown and blossomed.”
“Theoretically we love the forced communions of urban life. Practically we avoid them.”
“it was great to be a little sick with fear but / it’s better to be alive with a driver’s license”
“Keeping a journal is a perilous thing, and we should be warned against it as children.”