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The Perfect Hosts
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by Heather Gudenkauf (Goodreads Author)
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Neil Gaiman
“Songs remain. They last. The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties. A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That’s the power of songs.”
Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

Henry Miller
“We are all alone here and we are dead . . . Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.”
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

Anaïs Nin
“With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.”
Anaïs Nin, Little Birds: Thirteen Feminist Erotic Short Stories that Inspired the Series by Anaïs Nin

Charles Bukowski
“Nobody can save you but yourself. You will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. They will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise, and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. But don't, don't, don't. It's a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Nobody can save you but yourself, and you're worth saving.”
Charles Bukowski

Hugh Prather
“You say you just want to be my friend. I know that you mean you want to relate to my mind but not my body. I can understand that and will not ask you to relate to me in a way that you don't want to, or talk to me about subjects you find uncomfortable. But likewise I refuse to castrate myself for you by pretending not to have the feelings I have. If you want me as your friend you will have to accept my penis along with me.”
Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself

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