For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.
If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed? - Zoë Heller
If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
- Zoë Heller
We are bound by the secrets we share. - Zoë Heller
We are bound by the secrets we share.
It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it. - Zoë Heller
It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it.
...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left. - Zoë Heller
...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.
I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party. - Zoë Heller
I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.
There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have live… - Zoë Heller
There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have live…
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness. - Zoë Heller
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence. - Zoë Heller
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.
Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality. - Zoë Heller
Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.
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