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“Accountants come in pairs these days. A middle-aged man in a dark suit and a sheen of perspiration, plus his younger accomplice, a woman who looks like her hobbies are arranging things in rows and making right angles.”
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“He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother. It's completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive his business to ruin. The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“when McCain chose that reason-impaired bimbo from Alaska to be his running mate even Irv had to get off the GOP elevator”
― American by Day
― American by Day
“weren’t all marriages similar in one way or another? Once the initial passion of a relationship subsided, what remained were two people keeping each other company as they passed through”
― One Lost Soul
― One Lost Soul
“Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.”
― On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
― On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
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