Husbands and Wives  - Quotes

 Gabe:
What happened after the honeymoon? Did desire grow or did familiarity make partners want other lovers? Was the notion of ever-deepening romance a myth along with simultaneous orgasm? The only time Rifkin and his wife experienced one was when they were granted their divorce. Maybe in the end, the idea was not to expect too much out of life.
 



Julian Barnes  - Quotes

 The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur.  

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Don DeLillo  - Quotes

 When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear. 

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W.H. Auden  - Quotes

 Evil is unspectacular and always human,

And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....
 

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Jodi Picoult  - Quotes

 Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through. 

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