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Chang-rae Lee • My Year Abroad: A Novel
an ecstatic straining towards oblivion.
Philip Pullman • His Dark Materials: The Complete Collection: now a major BBC TV series
I am human, and nothing human is alien to me.TERENCE
Irvin D. Yalom • Staring at the Sun
only therapists are likely to encounter you in the here-and-now.
Irvin D. Yalom • Staring at the Sun
But in Monique’s case there could be no doubt she was, if anything, adding one or two years to her age. This I deduced
Vladimir Nabokov • Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
before he knew what was happening, he was a donkey. Needless to say, that made the cabbage taste much better.
PHILIP PULLMAN • Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
But every living creature wishes to persist in its own being-Spinoza said that around 350 years ago.
Irvin D. Yalom • Staring at the Sun
He would then proceed to startle and goad the earnest and morose, briskly crushing their fashionable and half-baked preconceptions.
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
A child is expert at frightening himself,