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“It’s like how everyone thinks I like tacos. We don’t even eat tacos in Panamá!” my dad said. “That’s right. We eat chicken and rice,” my mom said. “And seafood. Corvina as fresh as God makes it.” “Yes.”
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“...and the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God, which had begun to waver.”
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“But it persisted, arriving in her mind like the unexpected limbo dancer under the lavatory door of Life.”
― Equal Rites
― Equal Rites
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
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“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Passage
― Passage
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"On paths unknown, we tread with wonder. Through a glass darkly, to brave new worlds and beyond we go." We seek to explore and do critical reading fro ...more
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