He had the unmistakable sensation of being wounded so near to death that he felt his soul slide out of him, then slip back. – Norman Mailer, preface to 1976 reissue of Advertisements for Myself, referring t
It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you dont trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit. – W. G. Sebald
I dont understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? – Joni Mitchell
