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“Stop walking past our goddamn table, I’m thinking. I’m going to have sex for the first time in six years, don’t ruin this for me with your outstanding beauty.”
― Cash Carraway, Skint Estate: A memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival

“One day he went to a rally in Hartford for Ralph Nader and other Green Party candidates and assembled a spectacle that he called the Dopplerpus, which consisted of a rented carnival octopus ride on whose tentacles he and seven friends sat and played dirges on portable amps while the ride flung them around and distorted their sound interestingly.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom