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	Unpublishable by Chris Molnar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Etan Nechin (Editor), Daphne Palasi Andreades (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Archways 1 by Chris Molnar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nicodemus Nicoludis (Editor), Shy Watson (Contributor) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems

by Larry Levis

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The Guermantes Way

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Chris’s Quotes

“Art is what makes life more interesting than art.”
― Robert Filliou

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“I want to make people think about their thinking and feel about their feeling, but even more important to think about their feeling and feel about their thinking.”
― Ken Nordine

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“Just as art is the concealment of art, laissezfaire is the concealment of tremendous generosity.”
― Leonard Cohen

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“Seeing a Fassbinder retrospective is better than drugs, liquor and sex put together.”
― John Waters

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“The words in my head grew quiet for a moment; twenty-six characters funneling toward oblivion, back to whence they came. Peace seeking; internal light finding. The end-of-story calm of a bronzed fall evening. If I could write a letter to you, I’d tell you that you’ll be in my flower garden of perennials forever.”
― Naomi Falk, The Surrender of Man

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