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The Divine Comedy (Leather-bound Classics)

by Dante Alighieri

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Queer by William S. Burroughs

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“Then I knew the meaning of loneliness. But Bobo’s words came back to me from the tomb, the sibilants cracking gently. ‘No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.’ The difficulty is to convince someone else he is really ...more

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“You can only cruse the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

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“Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”
― Don DeLillo, Conversations with Don Delillo

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“I'll do that tomorrow. Then tomorrow comes and it's still today. Tomorrow is a relative term.

Makes Annie a lot more depressing”
― Bo Burnham

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“It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

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