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"the concept of 17th century italian monk heist novel…" — Mar 08, 2026 12:44PM
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I drive up Sunset and roll down all the windows, partly because the air-conditioning doesn’t work and it’s ninety degrees, but mostly because I’m driving past palm trees and hundreds of beauty parlors and taco trucks and doughnut shops and
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“We've read Jane Eyre too, you cunt, and we've read The Waves, and when we read it, you know, we wept for minutes.
Then he stars weeping.”
― Bunny
Then he stars weeping.”
― Bunny
“It was a terrible thing, sure, but we live in a world that has no shortage of terrible things. You can't stop for all of them.”
― Sadie
― Sadie
“There is only one good thing about a small town
You know that you want to get out
- Songs for Drella”
― I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics
You know that you want to get out
- Songs for Drella”
― I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics
“It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absentminded, reckless, heedless of social obligations, etc. It is as it must be. The tire goes flat, the tooth falls out, there will be a hundred meals without mustard. The poem gets written. I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame. Neither do I have guilt.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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