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As a rule, the boys who despised gym class and intramural soccer will later prize and pay dearly for athletic wear, as if it was a more rugged, locker room–seduction Chanel.
“Perhaps I was so steeped in love, woven its mythologies through my mind for so long, that when it arrived in reality I could not recognize it.”
― Open, Heaven
― Open, Heaven
“English printed culture was and remains profoundly indebted to immigrants from other lands.”
― The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
― The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
“I wonder if I would have been braver if I'd seen myself not in a bar first, but in a book”
― Rough Pages
― Rough Pages
“I sometimes wish I could hate a place as easily as other people instead of hating the people themselves.”
― The Lookback Window
― The Lookback Window
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