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Book cover for Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays
Witnessing the return of Mom’s illness, it finally hit me how brainwashed I’d been, how flawed was the line of thinking that hard work and humility would save me. Those things hadn’t saved her. And no amount of pretending things might be ...more
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J.D. Salinger
“I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Salvador Dalí
“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”
― Salvador Dali

Marcel Proust
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
― Marcel Proust

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest;
And deal full many a thoughtless blow,
To those who love us best.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“It’s amazing how much a human being can hide from another human being.”
― Mark Simpson, The Serial Killers: Jeffrey Dahmer

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