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“Fear, poverty, alcoholism, loneliness are terminal illnesses. Emergencies, in fact.”
― A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
― A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
“You must observe, when you write to any one, it is for them, and not for yourself: you must endeavour, then, to write to please them, and not give them your thoughts.”
― Dangerous Liaisons
― Dangerous Liaisons
“You can never replace it. The good news is you do learn to live without it. You miss it. You want it. You hang out with a bunch of other crazy people who feel the same way and you live with it. And eventually, you start to sound like a cloying self-help book, like me.”
― Dry
― Dry
“And it hits me, the reason for all the metaphors in recovery. Because the bald truth would be too terrifying. What she's saying is I may need an all-new career and all-new friends.”
― Dry
― Dry
“A young couple strolls by, the adoration of one bouncing off the tolerance of the other.”
― Calypso
― Calypso
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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A group to gather and discuss, question, comment, interpret, review etc. Drinking of actual Margaritas while reading and/or discussing strongly encour ...more
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