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Book cover for Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Now instead of being “weird,” my inability to carry on an appropriate conversation was suddenly labeled a “painfully devastating and incurable medical disability that torments both the victim and those around her.” By me, that is. My ...more
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Abraham Lincoln
“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
Abraham Lincoln

Tom Waits
“Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.”
Tom Waits

Ambrose Bierce
“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
Ambrose Bierce

Taylor Jenkins Reid
“When someone’s presence gives you energy, when it riles up something in you—the way Daisy did for me—you can turn that energy into lust or love or hate. I felt most comfortable hating her.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

S.J. Perelman
“The main obligation is to amuse yourself.”
S.J. Perelman

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