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UC_Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion

by Pete Carroll

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by Ben Lerner

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Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González

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After years where I was the only brown speck in attendance, lately there’d been a noted effort to populate the guest list with more “Third World Artists.” This

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“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

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“Someday we will remember even these our hardships with pleasure.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

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“What I am saying, these decisions we make in youth are everything. You have no idea. Those feelings, they don’t revenir. Pas comme ça. And no one tells you.’ She points to the pages of Yash’s letter on the bed. ‘Do not put this love second. Marry him. Marry him and have your babies. It doesn’t matter what happens after that.’ I say I’m only twenty-three and she says, ‘Screw the calendar. What does a calendar know about love?”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

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