Quotes from bookBeautiful Ruins
Beautiful Ruins is a bestselling novel by Jess Walter, first published in 2012. It is his sixth novel. The novel is a social satire critiquing Hollywood culture. Though not the explicit focus of the novel, receiving very little direct appearances in the novel, the characters' lives revolve around Elizabeth Taylor and her role in the movie Cleopatra, and the subsequent love affair between Taylor and Richard Burton.
“No one gets to tell you what your life means!”
Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins
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“… the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.”
Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins
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“What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?”
Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins
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“Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.”
Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins
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