J.M. Ledgard Quotes

#1. If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it's really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

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#2. She saw the deepness that was at the edge of France and it made the beach under her feel like a ledge on a cliff.

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#3. Hades is evolved to the highest state of simplicity.

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#4. Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness of eyes, and the harpsichord strings behind the kneecaps.

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#5. If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

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#6. Our souls are made of water, Goethe says. So too, our bodies. There is a flow within us, rising and falling, unidirectional, to the heart. there is a flow without also. We circulate. We are drawn up, and we fall back down to earth again. It's all haemodynamics.

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#7. Jinn ... occupy bodies which are in a liminal state ... when consciousness is a sheet of copper beaten down, mirroring only the moment

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#8. the strangest life exists in the cracks

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#9. But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

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#10. Disordered clumps, wrongly beautiful, like a scan of a damaged brain

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