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Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

by Mary Ruefle

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“...the end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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“My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

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“At the bottom of everything there is the hallelujah.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

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“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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