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“The French! France is a country of perverts! Perverts who love to fuck! I reminded myself.”
― Sophie Kemp, Paradise Logic

“People who lack all sympathy are feeling better about themselves. The more a person doesn’t care the freer he becomes. The new thinking is that compassion is nothing but self-cannibalization.” Gordon”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“Because when you are twenty-three you will slum it for love. You will sit in the back row on purpose. You will live in a dumpster and sleep on top of newspaper and fall in love with a boy who is named Ariel. You will meet him at a punk venue and he will take you on a first date where you play pinball and do kissing. You will say: I know this is bad. And yet. And yet. Life can be very beautiful when you squint hard from the shit seats, in that place called Paradise.”
― Sophie Kemp, Paradise Logic

“I’d feel paradoxically full in the stomach, empty in my heart, tired, alone, content, whole, hollow, broken and repaired, cheated and lucky, useless and essential to the cosmic pattern.”
― Michael S.A. Graziano, The Divine Farce