— Grace Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
— Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
— Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
‘Listen carefully. There is a woman who is wealthy and absolutely beautiful—in fact, flawless. She could be devotedly loved by anyone she pleased. But for one perverse accident of her nature—she only likes the unknown.’
‘But everybody likes the unknown,’ said George, thinking immediately of voyages, unexpected encounters, novel situations.
‘No, not in the way she does. She is interested only in a man she has never seen before and will never see again. And for this man she will do anything.’
"— Anais Nin, Delta of Venus
— Denis Johnson, Already Dead
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
“But if you really want my side of the story, here it is: Who isn’t crazy sometimes? Who hasn’t driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn’t haunted a certain coffee shop, or stared obsessively at an old picture; who hasn’t toiled over every word in a letter, taken four hours to write a two-sentence e-mail, watched the phone praying that it will ring; who doesn’t lay awake at night sick with the image of her sleeping with someone else?
I mean, Christ, seriously, what love isn’t crazy?
"— Jess Walter, Virgo
— Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
— Frank O’Hara
— Jack Kerouac, The Town and The City
— Paul Goodman
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via documentation of life)
(Source: quote-book, via mysensibleheart)
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