## Metadata - Author: [[Philippe Lançon]] - Full Title: Disturbance - Category: #books ## Highlights - you have to notice the smallest details of what you experience, the tiniest of tiny things, as if you were going to die in the following minute or change planets—the ([Location 236](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07P7S3FTG&location=236)) - For the future victim, a little thought that comes to mind in the toilet would be more important than a declaration of war, a meeting at work, or a minister’s resignation. ([Location 242](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07P7S3FTG&location=242)) - it would not be a question of noting the essential things, the main stages; that is the perspective of someone who is alive and healthy. ([Location 247](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07P7S3FTG&location=247)) - a novel is not a place of virtue. ([Location 282](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07P7S3FTG&location=282)) - Most interviews with writers or artists are useless. They merely paraphrase the work that has elicited them. ([Location 294](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07P7S3FTG&location=294)) - Nothing is more flattering or more exciting than finding oneself in a place that others have deserted, in the eye that waiting hollows out at the center of the hurricane. We were young, uneasy, and hungry. History seemed to be our adventure and our property. ([Location 328](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07P7S3FTG&location=328))