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"If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between the image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstance, write it down."
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"And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, the insecurity she’d felt, all the innocent mistakes she made."
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Stayed up until 3 AM last night reading this book cover to cover. It reminded me of everything I loved about Are You There God It's Me Margaret and Then Again Maybe I Won't when I was growing up (especially the makeout scenes) if Margaret had a tumbl...
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"Indeed, much yayness! I was just sitting here thinking that reading just one or two from the Complete Pmz every day would be a nice, tiny reading goal...more"
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“There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.
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― Anne Enright, The Gathering
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― Anne Enright, The Gathering
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann
― Thomas Mann
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― David Foster Wallace, This is Water
― David Foster Wallace, This is Water
“Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it’s true that nothing matters more to us than that.”
― Mark Doty, Still Life With Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
― Mark Doty, Still Life With Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
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