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Getting Mother's Body

by Suzan-Lori Parks

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There is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce

by Thomas Joseph Sugrue

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Jun 16, 2013 10:11PM

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

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“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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“If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.”
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― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

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“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
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