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“Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

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“Desire is sad.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

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“For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: metaphor, thought

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“I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

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“People avenge themselves for the favors done them.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

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Poetry (Poetry)

1 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:34PM

Description: For now I'm just going to post this one poem. It's the only I've written that doesn't make me wince when I reread it.

City Beat Stories (Literature & Fiction)

2 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33PM

Description: These are stories I wrote for San Diego City Beat's Fiction 101 contest (the best stories under 101 words.) The first one won an honorable mention despite its stupid title. The second was printed without a mention of any kind. BTW, if you want to know what a pataphor is, consult wikipedia. That's where I learned of them. Also, Pedro Edelstein is the name of my chihuahua/dachshund mix. Everything else is purely fictional.