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it’s an absolute goddamned travesty, or at any rate extremely dissatisfying indeed.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Sylvanshine could almost literally see the small pink man drinking Pepto-Bismol straight out of the bottle and going home to a woman who treated him like an uninteresting stranger.
David Foster Wallace • The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
discomfited
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
It never occurred to him that she might be more hurt at his going away than glad of his success. Indeed, as the days drew near for his departure, her heart began to close and grow dreary with despair. She loved him so much! More than that, she hoped in him so much. Almost she lived by him. She liked to do things for him: she liked to put a cup for
... See moreD. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence • Sons and Lovers
he was simply an early lover of mankind,
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Even the voice of Steeply had a different timbre inside the shadow. ‘They say it’s a great and maybe even timeless love, Rod Tine’s for your Luria person.’ Marathe grunted, shifting slightly in the chair. Steeply said ‘The sort that gets sung about, the kind people die for and then get immortalized in song. You got your ballads, your operas. Trista
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
“I am not ill,” she said. And she added in a voice that was calm, speculative, and almost uninterested, “I am desperately, desperately unhappy.”
John McGahern • Stoner
Percy Shelley in “A Defense of Poetry,”