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Milk Teeth
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He had seen it first-hand in college. There had been five women in his class of two hundred. If a male student struggled in a course, either he was called a duffer or the subject itself was declared too hard. If one of the women did, the
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“In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.”
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“It is I who drink lonely
Drinks at twelve, midnight, in hotels of strange towns,
It is I who laugh, it is I who make love
And then, feel shame, it is I who lie dying
With a rattle in my throat. I am sinner,
I am saint. I am the beloved and the
Betrayed. I have no joys that are not yours, no
Aches which are not yours. I too call myself I.”
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Drinks at twelve, midnight, in hotels of strange towns,
It is I who laugh, it is I who make love
And then, feel shame, it is I who lie dying
With a rattle in my throat. I am sinner,
I am saint. I am the beloved and the
Betrayed. I have no joys that are not yours, no
Aches which are not yours. I too call myself I.”
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“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
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“I will be waiting here....
For your silence to break,
For your soul to shake,
For your love to wake!”
― The Essential Rumi
For your silence to break,
For your soul to shake,
For your love to wake!”
― The Essential Rumi
“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”
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