“Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friend calls it.”
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― Dept. of Speculation
“I tried to figure out if I felt calmer with a blanket over my head. No I did not was the answer.”
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― Dept. of Speculation
“And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.”
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― Dept. of Speculation
“The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out. A home has a perimeter. But sometimes our perimeter was breached by neighbors, by Girl Scouts, by Jehovah’s Witnesses. I never liked to hear the doorbell ring. None of the people I liked ever turned up that way.”
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― Dept. of Speculation
“A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.”
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― Dept. of Speculation
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