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“The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.”— Sinclair Lewis, amazon.com
“Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“All the dying that summer began with the death of a child, a boy with golden hair and thick glasses, killed on the railroad tracks outside New Bremen, Minnesota, sliced into pieces by a thousand tons of steel speeding across the prairie toward South Dakota.”— William Kent Krueger, amazon.com
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.”— Saul Bellow, amazon.com
“Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years.”— Muriel Spark, amazon.com
“The boys, as they talked to the girls from Marcia Blaine School, stood on the far side of their bicycles holding the handlebars, which established a protective fence of bicycle between the sexes, and the impression that at any moment the boys were likely to be away.”— Muriel Spark, amazon.com
“I slept on one of the couches in Camilla’s living room, using my packed duffel bag as a pillow and my jacket as a blanket.”— David Shapiro, amazon.com
“On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide— it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese— the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“Sometimes the sordidness of his present existence, not to mention the stifling, clammy heat of the apartment his finances had forced him to take, on the third floor of an ugly old house on Binghamton’s West Side—‘ the nice part of town,’ everybody said (God have mercy on those who had to live in the…”— John Gardner, amazon.com
“The American flag is the most exquisite and artistic of all the banners of all the nations.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com