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My backstory grew more elaborate with each passing day. Married off far too young to an older caballero who could have been my grandfather. By the first week, I had most of the women’s sympathy, and the gentlemen approved of my desire to
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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
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“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Isn't it pretty to think so.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
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with your one wild and precious life?”
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“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
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