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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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a family you can make overnight

[...] "Which do you love more, your family or Albania?" Albania, of course, I told him. A family you can make overnight. You walk out of a coffee house, run into a woman on the corner, take her to a hotel, and boom--wife and children. But you can't make Albania overnight after a quick drink in a co…

—p.296 The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays Ismail Kadare (290) by James Wood
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there is no fire

[...] the abysses in Krasznahorkai are bottomless and not logical. Krasznahorkai often deliberately obscures the referent, so that we have no idea what is motivating the fictions: reading him is a little like seeing a group of people standing in a circle in a town square, apparently warming their h…

—p.282 'Reality Examined to the Point of Madness': László Krasznahorkai (277) by James Wood
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our mornings harden in a different way

[...] Has anyone described the way light changes during the morning better than Hardy does, in his poem 'The Going': 'while I / Saw morning harden upon the wall'? One can see, with the help of these lines, the light becoming more solid, more densely itself; and of course our mornings harden in a di…

—p.243 Thomas Hardy (241) by James Wood
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contradictions are what make writers interesting

Orwell feared what he most desired: the future. But it is easy to gloat over Orwell's contradictions--to point out that he wrote so well about the drabness and horror of totalitarianism because he himself had a tendency to drab omnipotence; or that the great proponent of urban collectivity liked ru…

—p.224 George Orwell's Very English Revolution (204) by James Wood
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the question that hangs over Orwell

So the question that hangs over Orwell is the one that always hangs over so many well-heeled revolutionaries: did he want to level up society or level it down? The evidence points to the latter. The real struggle for this puritan masochist, the one that was personal--the one that was, ironically en…

—p.223 George Orwell's Very English Revolution (204) by James Wood