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The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon

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Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

by Rickie Lee Jones

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The Queen's Gambit

by Walter Tevis

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The Archivist by Martha Cooley

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The doctors at Hayden may have erred about the details of her condition. They need their labels, their certainties. What are depression and psychosis, after all, but lapses from realism? And what’s that? But the doctors were right about the ...more

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Brian’s Quotes

“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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