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“What is belief but someone offering you relief”
Alan Gerstle

“Love slays what we have been,
That we may be what we were not.”
Kenneth Rexroth, The Complete Poems

“he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular”
Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“I think some people deserve to get their asses kicked”
Dagoberto Gilb, Gritos: Essays

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