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Soon psychopathology replaced ethnicity as the critical demographic determinant.
Mark Leyner • My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
Tolstoy described a child as a sphere of vulnerability, another place the world can hurt you.
Rich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1941).
Herbert A. Simon • Models of My Life
ends in my life? How is my mind torn?
Alan Lew • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
Nabokov is in fact a kind of anti-monster. He was willing to have the world think the worst of him. By doing so—by telling the worst story, and letting himself be implicated in that story—he created a way for us to understand, to feel, the enormity of what it is to steal a childhood.
Claire Dederer • Monsters
but it wasn’t only imagination the nurse lacked, it was curiosity as well.
Philip Pullman • His Dark Materials: The Complete Collection: now a major BBC TV series
They had him committed repeatedly to a psychiatric institution and subjected to electroshock therapy because they loved him.
Lou Aronica • The Element
The outside world was harsh, merciless towards the weak, and hardly ever kept its promises, and love remained the only thing in which one could still, perhaps, have faith.