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Ecstasy: Poems

by Alex Dimitrov

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Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told

by Jeremy Atherton Lin (Goodreads Author)

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Kitnay Aadmi Thay : Completely Useless Bollywood Trivia

by Diptakirti Chaudhuri (Goodreads Author)

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“Love is circumstantial; we can love anyone if need be; and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.”
― Andrew Solomon

tags: anyone, catastrophe, circumstantial, grief, heal, loss, love, need, past, present, time, yearning

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“[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.”
― Amit Chaudhuri, Calcutta: Two Years in the City

tags: art, bloodless, delicate, food, line

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“She grinned, a silty grin. 'You were my two dividends, yes? Don't you forget that.'

Then she sighed, took a deep breath, and said, 'But what an investment. My life.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

tags: dividends, investment, life, motherhood

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“I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.”
― Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

tags: explain, language, style, think

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“But you know, as I do, that the storm will pass
And that the implacable sun doesn't simply stop
When obscured by a dark, pernicious cloud,
Which is why I know I'll return to your house-
On a Sunday that's there on the calendar-
And laugh with you over a glass of grappa.”
― Mauricio Rosencof

tags: calendar, cloud, dark, hope, house, know, laugh, return, storm, sun

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