May 2012
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When I'm unpacking back at home and find a receipt...
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There’s a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else’s...
– Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
February 2012
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Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we...
– Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
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For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life....
– Fr. Alfred D’Souza
January 2012
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Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever...
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
December 2011
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It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the...
– Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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I had nothing to offer anyone except my own confusion.
– Jack Kerouac
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The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is...
– Milan Kundera, Ignorance
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Tell me, what will you do with your one wild and precious life?
– Mary Oliver
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The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop...
– Katherine Mansfield
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The past is always tense, the future perfect.
– Zadie Smith
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