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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)
Date: September 2, 2011
"We speak of exerting will power, of forcing ourselves to go to work, of restraining ourselves and of controlling our temper, as if it were an unruly dog."
preview | full record— Pinker, Steven (b. 1954)
