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“Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”
― The Spectacular Now
― The Spectacular Now
“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
― Joyland
― Joyland
“When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.”
― Joyland
― Joyland
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Art, Biography, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Psychology, Self help, and Travel
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