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In those days, if they had dropped a bomb on the Erwin Center during a Lady Longhorns game, every lesbian and progressive in Austin would have perished.
“When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.”
― Brother Odd
― Brother Odd
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Emerson in His Journals
― Emerson in His Journals
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