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“The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor. Inevitably, the odor made her simultaneously ravenous and nauseated. She hated the sensation. It reminded her of pregnancy. Every Sunday morning, Leigh-Cheri awoke to a pan of fried fear.”
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“We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library”
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“Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
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