Jason Shirk
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To Paradise
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What he wouldn’t know until he was much older was that no one was ever free, that to know someone and to love them was to assume the task of remembering them, even if that person was still living. No one could escape that duty, and as you
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“The most we can do is to write—intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively—about what it is like living in the world at this time.”
― Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
― Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
“There’s a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.”
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
“The photo was thus a fulfillment of her paradoxical desire: to reveal herself to the world so a single person would see.”
― Didion and Babitz
― Didion and Babitz
“Dreams are all equipped with revolving doors: Someone is always walking into the one you are leaving, and vice-versa.”
― Nights in Aruba
― Nights in Aruba
“Why do the wrong people reproduce? I ask myself that question every day—along with Why do the wrong people have money? And Why do the wrong people have big cocks? There is never an answer to life’s most pressing questions.”
― Nights in Aruba: A Classic of Gay Literature
― Nights in Aruba: A Classic of Gay Literature
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