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Sometimes, indeed, she had reflected that Dodo would perhaps not make a husband happy who had not her way of looking at things; and stifled in the depths of her heart was the feeling that her sister was too religious for family comfort. ...more
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Patricia Lockwood
“What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?”
Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

Elif Batuman
“The eternal pauper in the great marketplace of ideas and of the world, I had nothing to teach anyone. I didn’t have anything anyone wanted.”
Elif Batuman, The Idiot

Eve Babitz
“The rain is freedom; it has always been like that in L.A. It’s freedom from smog and unbroken dreary hateful sameness, it’s freedom to look out the window and think of London and little violets and Paris and cobblestones. It’s freedom to be cozy. Cozy! You can be cozy and not even have to go to San Francisco.”
Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

Eula Biss
“One of the most frightening things about children, in my experience, is their intelligence. They inevitably know more than we suspect them of knowing. They appraise us with devastating accuracy. And they are aware of injustices we have learned to ignore.”
Eula Biss, Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays

Elif Batuman
“Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the next thing happened.”
Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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