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'Yet, is that not what literature is for? To search the hills for greater meaning hiding in plain sight?'

'The problem is that men my own age are intolerable. I am required to listen to them speak for the duration of our encounter but they never ask me any questions about my own life. There are a few exceptions. Those exceptions are incredible men. They are so rare we must treat them like snow leopards.'

'[Oscar Wilde's] tomb was 'under arrest' and the testicles on the statue had been covered by plaster to 'protect public decency'.'

'I had lost it. Who was Gertrude Stein?
Immigrant hair. What do words mean?'