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4.5 / 5The ending was the home run. Made up for a sagging middle. This has been the most feel-good Auster novel so far. As ever, the language and mood of his writing is such that it does not do any literary- linguistic gymnastics, but glides along sm ...more "
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""one by one, each element is there, but the whole is lacking, the parts don't cohere, and I do no more than search for the remnants of a day that doesn't fully exist."" — Jun 23, 2015 09:47PM
""one by one, each element is there, but the whole is lacking, the parts don't cohere, and I do no more than search for the remnants of a day that doesn't fully exist."" — Jun 23, 2015 09:47PM
“The difference between the present and the past is that the conscious present is an awareness of the past in a way and to an extent which the past’s awareness of itself cannot show.”
― Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay
― Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay
“He looked sadly down at the street, as though it were his own bottomless sadness.”
― Amerika
― Amerika
“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
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“A pen is a furious weapon. But it needs a rage of will.”
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