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Playworld: A Novel
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Chris’s Quotes

David Mitchell
“Marvel at the Two-Headed Schizoid Man! Gaze upon Madame Matryoshka and Her Pregnant Embryo! Gasp in Horror at the Real, Live Merican—but don’t poke your fingers into his cage!”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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David Foster Wallace
“TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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Dave Eggers
“We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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David Mitchell
“People are obscenities.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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David Mitchell
“Tough,” he enunciated, “titty!”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Graphic novels, History, Humor and Comedy, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Science fiction, Suspense, and Thriller


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