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The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time, #3)

by Marcel Proust

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May 25, 2026 11:43AM

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: los-angeles

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“As all partings foreshadow the great final one, - so, empty rooms, bereft of a familiar presence, mournfully whisper what your room and what mine must one day be.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

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“In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.”
― William Burroughs

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“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.”
― H. L. Mencken

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“I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

tags: equality, humanity, integration, interfaith-marriage, intermarriage, interracial-marriage, marriage

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