We ought to declare our gratitude for these non-existent works on two counts: first, writing that is confined to mere potentiality is in almost all instances reliably superior to words actually on a page.
Pablohas quoted10 months ago
Life is that which—pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially—interrupts.
Pablohas quoted10 months ago
Rupture doesn’t attract me: I would rather inherit coherence than smash and start over again with enigma.
Pablohas quoted10 months ago
The sentence I am writing is my cabin and my shell, compact, self-sufficient.
Pablohas quoted10 months ago
She was all profusion, abundance, fabrication
Pablohas quoted10 months ago
She was an optimist who ignored trifles; for her, God was not in the details but in the intent
Pablohas quoted10 months ago
She thought herself capable of doing anything, and did everything she imagined. But nothing was perfect. There was always some clear flaw, never visible head-on. You had to look underneath, where the seams were. The corn thrived, though not in rows. The stalks elbowed one another like gossips in a dense little village.
Pablohas quoted10 months ago
For a long time it hardly recognized itself for what it was, and was often confused with the magazine article—that shabby, team-driven, ugly, truncated, undeveloped, speedy, breezy, cheap thing.
Pablohas quoted10 months ago
It may be that the little magazines no longer define themselves as uniformly as they once did because they cannot.