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“Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.”
― David Mitchell

tags: truth

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“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: life

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“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: cheese, dip, dunce, food, history, writing

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“People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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“Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common.”
― David Sedaris, Naked

tags: alcohol, drugs, entertaining, friends, socializing

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Ask Lionel Shriver - Monday, June 24th! — 356 members — last activity Sep 30, 2014 09:55PM
Join us on Monday, June 24th for a special discussion with author Lionel Shriver! Lionel will be discussing her new book Big Brother. Become a fa ...more