70 Quotes About Dexter-palmer

There's no way for me to warn you about the terrible things that I know are going to happen.

-Dexter Palmer

As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes.

-Dexter Palmer

Certain parts of me became a little bit forgotten, a little bit numb, a little bit dead, and it was nice to have some dead places in me for a little while, to lose a little bit of my broken mind.

-Dexter Palmer

Ah, but can one person ever really know another? Are we not all mysteries to each other?

-Dexter Palmer

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    It seems strange and inaccurate, when writing of what oneself once was, to speak of oneself as 'I,' especially when I find it difficult to own up to some of the actions performed by the people I once was . . . the only way to make sense of our existences is to set the stories of our lives down on paper, to try to make one tale that shows how the twentieth century turned Harold Winslow into Harold Winslow into Harold Winslow into me.

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It seems strange and inaccurate, when writing of what oneself once was, to speak of oneself as 'I,' especially when I find it difficult to own up to some of the actions performed by the people I once was . . . the only way to make sense of our existences is to set the stories of our lives down on paper, to try to make one tale that shows how the twentieth century turned Harold Winslow into Harold Winslow into Harold Winslow into me.

-Dexter Palmer

All of us have days in our lives, perhaps three or four at the most, when what we might call disparate events converge.

-Dexter Palmer

Howard!' she hollered as the machines pulled her under. 'Howard!' At least she didn't remember my name, either.

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    I've had enough of stories and lies; enough of silent scribbling. Enough of gears and engines. Enough of daydreams and false futures. Enough of virgins and dynamos.One word from you is all I want, she said. Just speak one word, and we'll begin.Enough of wasting time.

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I've had enough of stories and lies; enough of silent scribbling. Enough of gears and engines. Enough of daydreams and false futures. Enough of virgins and dynamos.One word from you is all I want, she said. Just speak one word, and we'll begin.Enough of wasting time.

-Dexter Palmer

What's happened to her? The person that she is seems like a shell designed to cover up the person that Harold once knew her to be.

-Dexter Palmer

 

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