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“I felt every level, graphemic, morphological, and semantic, and they all hurt.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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“I told him that my father was dead and that to take her mind off it I had told my mother that I was pregnant. I said it had taken her mind off it wonderfully, so far; and that it also happened to be true.”
― Penelope Mortimer, The Pumpkin Eater

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“God sends drunks blackouts because if they knew what they had done they would surely die of shame.”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

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“She is married. I suppose there are children. They walk together on Sundays, the sunlight falling upon them. They visit friends, talk, go home in the evening, deep in the life we all agree is so greatly to be desired.”
― James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime

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“The genesis of my coat, made from fine wool, spinning backwards through the looms, onto the body of a lamb, a black sheep a bit apart from the flock, grazing on the side of a hill. A lamb opening its eyes to the clouds that resemble for a moment the woolly backs of his own kind.”
― Patti Smith, M Train: A Memoir

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