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“We should all be so lucky to get from life a sunny-day swim in chemical waste.”
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Turning I would to I did is the grammar of growing up.”
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
“To be a white middle-class child in a small southern town must be on certain levels the most golden way for a child to live in the United States.”
― South and West: From a Notebook
― South and West: From a Notebook
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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— last activity Apr 26, 2018 01:50PM
This is an off-shoot for the in-person New & Noteworthy book club. We do meet in person monthly every fourth Thursday at BookPeople in Austin, Texas. ...more
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