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Date: 2009, trans. 2012
"Soon the countryside began to merge into shapes I vaguely recognized, it became more and more familiar until what I saw through the window coalesced with the images I had in my mind's eye."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: 2009, trans. 2012
"Feelings are like water, they always adapt to their surroundings."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: 2009, trans. 2012
"But with the flame of alcohol burning in my brain I took no notice of the atmosphere that otherwise would have affected me, for although I wasn't outright happy, I was elated, exhilarated, motivated by the desire to continue this, which not even a direct reminder of Dad's death could shake, it w...
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: 2009, trans. 2012
"But I didn't want to linger, nor could I perhaps, for the sensation lasted only a few moments, then my brain sank its claws into it and I went back to the kitchen where everything was as I had left it, except for the color of the drinks, which were shiny and full of small, grayish bubbles now."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: 2009, trans. 2012
"'Unraveling' was our family euphemism for senility."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: June 1, 2010
"Books live in the mind like honey inside a beehive.
preview | full record— McGrath, Campbell (b. 1962)
Date: June 1, 2010
"Anyone who's closely read Mr. Hitchens's work -- including his best-selling manifesto 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything' (2007) -- or seen him do battle on cable news programs, knows that he has a mind like a Swiss Army knife, ready to carve up or unbolt an opponent's arguments ...
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)
Date: June 1, 2010
"His mental Swiss Army knife also contains, happily, a corkscrew."
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)
Date: March 10, 2011
"Richards’s sharpness is surprising coming from a guy whose mind, everyone had to assume, was by now a salvage heap."
preview | full record— Chiasson, Dan
Date: September 2, 2011
"When we fight an urge, it feels like a strenuous effort, as if there were a homunculus in the head that physically impinged on a persistent antagonist."
preview | full record— Pinker, Steven (b. 1954)
