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The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

by Iris Murdoch

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Maynard's House by Herman Raucher

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In honor of New England, he selected a can of baked beans, prying it from its clam-tight place with diligence and vindictives. He opened it, set it on the stove top, and allowed it to simmer right in the can—until the bubbling sound of it ...more

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“Money is sad shit”
― Richard Brautigan, The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings

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“Somewhere in my brain each laugh, tear and lullaby becomes memory.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

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“Everyone else has gone away. And now coming back home isn’t really coming back home at all.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

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“People’s marriages were like two-person religious cults, impossible to understand.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

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“And you don’t always have to feel the compulsion to keep striving toward something for the sake of striving. No one will think less of you. There are no grades anymore, Greer. Sometimes I think you forget that. There are never going to be grades for the rest of your life, so you just have to do what you want to do. Forget about how it looks. Think about what it is.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

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