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Oct24

Continuing to read The Ground Beneath Her Feet.

Chap. 13 On Pleasure Island

Quotations:

  • "... an essential part of America's contract with her citizens is being fulfilled. The pursuit of happiness; and of death." [p. 374]
  • "I love New York. It's full of people still doing stuff they gave up years ago." [p. 374]
  • "... to paradox itself, and its non-identical twin ambiguity." [p. 378]
  • "Milan Kundera ... 'Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty, even in times of the greatest distress.' ... in our functioning we follow the dictates of our need for form." [p. 380]
  • "The people with whom you share a history: these are the people who can leave you shipwrecked and drowning." [p. 386]
  • "The more I see of the West, he says, the more I realize that the best things in life come from the East." [p. 407]

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