May 2012
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“Jamie’s dead, dammit. There’s nothing we can do to save her. I...”
– Layne
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April 2012
4 posts
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“To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey...”
– Walt Whitman’s “To the States”
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March 2012
8 posts
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“The Decision of Self Removal.”
– a helpful medical pamphlet
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“A tree is an explosion in slow motion.”
– 1-800-MICE
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“I don’t know where I come from or where I’m going.”
– Amen, brother.
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“It’s gone. Her face is gone. I used to lie awake at night with my eyes...”
– I can still see the shape of her. But when I try to remember the details… the curve of her lips… the shape of her eyes… it just fades away.
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“Big volatile gas balls. And they shrink you into nursery rhymes.”
– The day before you’re older.
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“What a happy time that was, when all the electricity went away! If only we...”
– Donald Bartheleme “City Life”
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11%!
Elsa: Ramona has frightened me.
Jacques: How?
Elsa: She said one couldn't sleep with someone more than four hundred times without being bored.
Jacques: How does she know?
Elsa: She saw it in a book.
Jacques: Well...we only do what we really want to do about 11 per cent of the time. In our lives.
Elsa: 11 per cent!
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“I will wait here for a hundred years. Or until the hot meat of romance is...”
– “The Phantom of the Opera’s Friend” by Donald Barthelme
February 2012
27 posts
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“A: Machines are braver than art.
Q: Since the death of the bicycle.”
– “The Explanation”
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“72. A number of nightingales with traffic lights tied to their legs flew past...”
– The conventional symbol…even though it is recognized only through agreement, is not a sign…because, again, it presumably arouses deep feelings and is regarded as possessing properties beyond what the eye alone sees.
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“Everyone in Paraguay has the same fingerprints. There are crimes but people...”
– Donald Barthelme, “Paraguay,” City Life, 1968.
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“If you’re miserable after a certain point in your life, I guess...”
– Harvey Pekar, “Interviewing the Interviewer,” American Splendor, 1999
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“Strange that our beginnings and endings are so ugly—the unborn as ugly as the...”
– Gordon Comstock on the embryonic unborn
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“At the bottom of all his feelings there was a sulkiness, a je m’en fous in...”
– Gordon Comstock, Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell.
January 2012
2 posts
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“What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has...”
– George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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“He lay awake, aware of his own futility, of his thirty years, of the blind alley...”
– Gordon Comstock
December 2011
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