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"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically...

We've got to live, no matter how
many skies have fallen."

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D. H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover

"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically...

We've got to live, no matter how
many skies have fallen."

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JD Salinger
For Esme, With Love and Squalor

(Esme is the name of my eldest cat) 🐈‍⬛
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S.E. Hinton
The Outsiders

"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from
the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things
on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home..."

(Written at age 16 while she was still in high school... and my sister's favorite book.)

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Andy Warhol
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

"I wake up and call B.
B is anybody who helps me kill time.
B is anybody and I am nobody.
B and I."

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Stephen King
The Body

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them--words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were In your head..."

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“LATER, AS HE sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building.…”

Came across this and thought of you.
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Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451

"IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN.

It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world..."

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Joyce Carol Oates
Jack of Spades

"Out of the air, the ax. Somehow there was an ax and it rose and fell in a wild swath aimed at my head..."

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Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that
the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum..."

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The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventyfirst birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in
Hobbiton.

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Yearling

A column of smoke rose thin and straight from the cabin chimney. The smoke was blue where it left the red of the clay. It trailed into the April sky and was no longer blue but gray. The boy Jody watched it, speculating.

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Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The floor was of varnished wood, with stripes and circles painted on it, for the games that were formerly played there; the hoops for the basketball nets were still in place, though the nets were gone.

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E. B. White
Charlotte’s Web

Where's Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
“Out to the hoghouse,” replied Mrs. Arable. “Some pigs were born last night.”
“I don’t see why he needs an ax,” continued Fern, who was only eight...

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John Barth
Lost in the Funhouse

"For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion..."

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Before the others are up,dawn,she walks to the lake,listening to Bach,the first clavichord exercise,which she plans to have played at her funeral someday,has had this plan since she first heard the music,and thinking of it she weeps lightly.
#WrongNorma
#AnneCarson

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Human Work

"The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand. This is described by Ward as “the illusion of the near.” Because of nearness we get no perspective; because of continual presence we become used to one view and fail to perceive others."

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I've never eaten a person but today I might

#OpenThroat
#HenryHoke

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Charles Bukowski
Tales of Ordinary Madness

"Duke had this daughter, Lala, they named her, she was 4. It was his first child and he was always careful not to have children, fearing they would murder him somehow, but now he was insane and she delighted him..."

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of The Four

"Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat Morocco case. With long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff..."

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William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch

"I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper..."

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Haruki Murakami
After Dark

"Eyes mark the shape of the city.

Through the eyes of a high-flying night bird, we take in
the scene from midair. In our broad sweep, the city looks
like a single gigantic creature..."

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J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap"

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THERE’S A NIGHT—I THINK THIS IS THE MIDDLE OF June—when we lock you in the house.

Nonfiction: A Novel
by Julie Myerson

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Mark Twain
A Dog's Tale

"My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian..."

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Cormac McCarthy
No Country For Old Men

"I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was the day of his execution..."

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Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God

"Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing..."

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Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club

"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For a long time though, Tyler and I were best friends..."

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Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive..."

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Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Leaves

"While enthusiasts and detractors will continue to empty entire dictionaries attempting to describe or deride it, 'authenticity' still remains the word most likely to stir a debate..."

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