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Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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The mens’ humanity was sexy and complicated; ours (mine) was to be kept in the dark at the bottom of the story and was only interesting in the service of the man’s humanity.

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“But also, divorce is about forgetfulness—a decision to stop remembering the moment before all the chaos—the moment they fell in love, the moment they knew they were more special together than apart. Marriages live in service to the memory of those moments. Their marriage would not forgive them for getting older, and they would not forgive their marriage for witnessing it.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

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“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

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“The gods looked down from their mountain and shrugged.”
― Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1

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“the world as it was could never be more than a fraction of the world, for the real also consisted of what could have happened but didn’t, that one road was no better or worse than any other road, but the torment of being alive in a single body was that at any given moment you had to be on one road only, even though you could have been on another, traveling toward an altogether different place.”
― Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1

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“the only one with an ear for prose who could follow his arguments about why Flannery O’Conner and Grace Paley were bolder, more inventive stylists than Bellow, Updike, or any other American man except perhaps Baldwin,”
― Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1

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