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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J.D. Vance

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“It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right. ”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Some Hope: A Trilogy

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“Welladay! Welladay!
For the winds of May!
Love is unhappy when love is away!”
― James Joyce, Chamber Music

tags: love

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“All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”
― James Joyce

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“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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“Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?”
― James Joyce, The Dead

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