April 2012
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February 2012
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“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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...and I just keep thinking...
…no balls, stop dropping. If you keep dropping you’ll have to be cut off; just stay up in your tiny little dog-testicle-cavity.
Never in my life have I thought so much about balls.
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“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim.”
– Frida Kahlo
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“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
I’m fairly certain this was the passage that made me fall in love with this book. I think it was just the line ‘You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.’
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“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
“Ivan Ilych’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most...”
– Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”
– J.D. Salinger