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Just what is it that makes today's collages so different, so appealing?

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“He was someone who was always embarrassed to discover his own innocence. I think that a feeling of superiority came naturally to him. With all their chatter about equality, Edith and Utch missed one point about Severin: he thought of himself as protecting Edith from his own complicated feelings. What a shock for him to learn that she was complicated too.”

John Irving - The 158-Pound Marriage (1974), p. 78

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“Instead he learned that life is not a choice between murdering your way to the throne or slopping back in a sty; that there are swinish kings and regal hogs; that the king may envy the pig; and that the possibilities of the not-life always change tormentingly to fit the particular embarrassments of the lived life.”

Julian Barnes - Flaubert’s Parrot (1984), p. 121

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“What I liked seeing was something so mysterious broken down into steps, pieced together in charts and tables.”

Emily Fridlund - History of Wolves (2017), p. 163

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“These were the details he missed, and they contributed to the growing list of things he didn’t know. This was the kind of Everyman he was - a little lost, a little misinformed (or uninformed), almost everywhere he was. Yet, even overfed, the doctor was undeniably attractive. Not every Everyman is attractive.”

John Irving - A Son of the Circus (1994), p. 264

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“When you’re a foreigner, there’s nothing like a local newspaper to orient you.”

John Irving - A Son of the Circus (1994), p. 456

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“Soon it would be dark; perhaps then the doctor could relax, for it would be better not to see one’s own death approaching.”

John Irving - A Son of the Circus (1994), p. 633

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“Full of doubt one minute, brimming with conviction the next, the missionary was a walking contradiction, he was dependably unreliable.”

John Irving - A Son of the Circus (1994), p. 722

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“As if she had saved up her whole life to acquire this hoard of scraps.”

Emily Fridlund - History of Wolves (2017), p. 161

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“We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely another literary genre: the past is autobiographical fiction pretending to be a parliamentary report.”

Julian Barnes - Flaubert’s Parrot (1984), p. 90