The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
Tags: life, imagination, fantasy, dreams, daydreaming

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She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?
Tags: reading, education, books
At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself up-to-date, in layman's terms, with physics generally. But even then his concentration was marred, for a lifetime's habit made him inconveniently watchful for his own name. He saw it as if in bold. It could leap out at him from an unread double page of small print, and sometimes he could sense it coming before the page turn.
Tags: science, physics, ian-mcewan, humor, ego
No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.
Tags: knowledge
He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessness and boredom, lack of sleep or routine can summon from out of nowhere random stretches of the past, make them as real as a haunting. --Solar
Tags: time, memory
Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.
Tags: waiting, time
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