Michael Barry
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The Oresteia by Aeschylus Paterson by William Carlos Williams Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass The Aeneid by Virgil The Art Book by Phaidon Press Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote What We Do Is Secret by Kief Hillsbery In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI by Marcel Proust Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
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“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.”
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
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