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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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4 weeks ago

you wanted to skip over the dull grind of actual creation inspo/self-deprecation topic/ambition

You have always wanted to be a writer. Getting the job at the magazine was only your first step toward literary celebrity. You used to write what you believed to be urbane sketches infinitely superior to those appearing in the magazine every week. You sent them up to Fiction; they came back with po…

—p.40 Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
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4 weeks ago

this is not your better self speaking project/panopticon project/rink-story

Tonight there is an overdue notice from VISA; a solicitation from Recording for the Blind; a letter from Jim Winthrop in Chicago, college roommate, best man at your wedding; and something corporate for Amanda White. You open Jim’s letter first. It starts “Hey stranger,” and ends with “regards to Am…

—p.37 by Jay McInerney
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4 weeks ago

it was worth it, after all, to have aged thirty years inspo/revelation topic/love

Sadness made Bradley look even older. Talking about any subject but the two of them was all it took—all it had ever taken—to illuminate their unsuitability for each other. What was best and most essential in her had been wasted on him. The converse was probably also true. She’d been too disturbed i…

—p.513 Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
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4 weeks ago

can’t we take joy in each other? advice/living

“Sweetie, I didn’t listen to Him, either. From now on, we’ll have to try to do better. That’s why I want us to pray together every day. I want us to change. I want us to be closer. I want us to experience the joy of God together.”

He shuddered.

“A terrible thing happened, but there can still …

—p.531 by Jonathan Franzen
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4 weeks ago

being alone with what she knew inspo/interiority

And yet: what if she didn’t? What exactly would be gained by dragging him through Bradley Grant, through Santa, through the abortion, through Rancho Los Amigos? She could clear her conscience by groveling in the dirt, but was it really a kindness to her husband? Now that Perry’s calamity had brough…

—p.530 by Jonathan Franzen