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"That explains [that]," Edwin said, even though no it fucking didn't

"A dreamer—if you must know its exact definition-is not a man, but a sort of creature of the neuter gender. He settles mostly in some inaccessible place, as though anxious to hide in it even from the light of day..." this guy was a nonbinary incel before it was cool

"'Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.'"

everything's crumby and everyone's phony

"I was sitting on a veranda at a party with about six women and the information that was exchanged, commonly called gossip, was enough to run the world for months. Suddenly a hush fell over the women and I looked around and there was a man. The women slid masks over their faces, the subject changed, the man said, "What are all you girls doing out here? Come in and join the party." And the summit conference was over."

"It wasn't the way he looked that made him impossible. It was what he said. It was his sense of humor. He would not resist a pun. And any man who will not resist a pun will never lie up-pun me."

"Frank and I drove back to Bakersfield from Lamont in a dusty mustard-gold car against a dusty mustard-gold landscape of suede hills rolling against the markings of telephone poles linked with fine wires of black. The sky was heavy beyond Bear Mountain and the land gave up nothing but dry golden wild rye, and looked as it must have always looked."