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“While customarily splling coffee grounds all over the counter, I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.”
― The Lazarus Project
― The Lazarus Project
“You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“Why, Mr Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.”
― Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
― Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
“They went off to the Holy Land and went from Orthodox to ultra-Orthodox, which to me sounds like a repackaged detergent–ORTHODOX ULTRA®, now with more deep-healing power.”
― What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
― What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
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