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"Wasn’t expecting Dworkin’s views on the looming shadow of nuclear annihilation over American life in the early 1960s, but I’m here for them. It is something I think people who didn’t live through it are largely unaware of." Feb 24, 2026 12:01AM

 
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"Sherry Thomas is the shit! Great balance of manipulative characters who engage in lots of game-playing without straying into the realm of true brutality. Good flirtation and the whole Anne Boleyn-Henry VIII dynamic with the lust and refusal to act on it. Really like this a lot." Dec 31, 2025 12:12AM

 
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"Honestly delightful. The chemistry between Harriet and LPW is more satisfying than any romance novel I have read in forever and gotta love the cloistered setting of the women’s college." Nov 23, 2025 11:25PM

 
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Joan Didion
“I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage. I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later—because I did not belong there, did not come from there—but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs. I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month.”
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Ernest Hemingway
“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Vladimir Nabokov
“His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost as soon as they entered the sphere of his existence.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

Lucia Berlin
“My legs! Lord Jesus stop the pain in my legs!”

“Hush John,” Florida said. “That’s only phantom pain.”

“Is it real?” I asked her.

She shrugged. “All pain is real.”
Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
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Voltaire
“I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it. Never was such a cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid. One longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost that habit for more than sixty years, I feel unhappily the impossibility of resuming it. Nor can I embark in search of the savages of Canada, because the maladies to which I am condemned render a European surgeon necessary to me; because war is going on in those regions; and because the example of our actions has made the savages nearly as bad as ourselves. [in response to Rousseau's "The Social Contract"]”
Voltaire

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