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finished: City of Angels (pages 125-131)

Page 127 - New York
"Visiting Americans will find more warmth in Tehran than they will in New York, a city founded on the principle of Us versus Them. I don't speak Latin but have always assumed that the city motto translates to either Go Home or We Don't Like You, Either."

Quote from The Great Leap Forward (pages 100-119)

Page 110 - about Richie, co-worker (moving company)
In an effort to impress his latest parole officer, Richie was trying to improve his vocabulary. "I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters."

Quotes from The Great Leap Forward (pages 100-119)

P106- About Valencia, his (rich!) boss
"Somewhere along the way, she'd got the idea that broke people led richer lives than everybody else, that they were nobler or more intelligent. In an effort to keep me noble, she was paying me less than she'd paid her previous assistant."

P109 - Patrick about Valencia
"She wants to be artsy but has settled for being cheap."

Quote from The Great Leap Forward (pages 100-119)

Page 101
"Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped that revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks."

finished: The Learning Curve (pages 83-96)

Page 92 - writing workshop
"The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers."

Page 94 - >:'))))
"The returning student had recently come through a difficult divorce, and because her pain was significant, she wrongly insisted that her writing was significant as well."

lunch break, munch break!! reading session 🍳🥗🥯

finished: The Youth in Asia (pages 69-82)

Page 80 - Neil the cat's euthanasia
"The end of my safe college life, the last of my thirty-inch waist, my faltering relationship with my first real boyfriend: I cried for it all and wondered why so few songs were written about cats."

lunch break and some chuckles as per usual 🤗🥗🥯

finished: You Can't Kill the Rooster (pages 60-68)

Page 62 "It's nontraditional, but that's the rooster's way."
had me in stitchesssss

finished: Genetic Engineering (pages 32-38)
finished: Twelve Moments in the Life of the Artist (pages 39-59) *LOVED*❣❣

Page 44 - many colleges, many attempts at being an artist
"True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible. (...) Unfortunately, the school had no accredited sulking program and I dropped out, more despondent than ever."

gobbling up a few pages during lunch break😌🥗🌮

finished: Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities (pages 16-31)

Page 30
"(...) but that's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top. I'd done my solo and would now move on to pursue other equally unsuccessful ways of getting attention."

finished: Go Carolina (pages 03-15)

Page 7
"I liked the idea that a part of one's body might be thought of as lazy - not thoughtless or hostile, just unwilling to extend itself for the betterment of the team."