“I should have known that when men warn you to be careful, often they are warning you of the dark movie playing across their own brains.”
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“My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“There is still such crookedness in my heart. I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.”
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