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The Law of Averages: New and Selected Stories

by Frederick Barthelme

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Lost Memory of Skin

by Russell Banks

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Val’s Quotes

“All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

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“She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

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“Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.”
― Tod Goldberg, The Reformed

tags: alcohol, burn-notice, drink, pruno, spy, tv-show

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“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: conditions, life

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“You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

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