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There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

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He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.

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In every evocation of a childhood scene, my stepfather's face is the least detailed, the most out of focus; when I think of him my memory's eyes have ...more

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I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it.

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The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.

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Beirut is the Elizabeth Taylor of cities: insane, beautiful, falling apart, aging, and forever drama laden.She'll also marry any infatuated suitor who...more

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Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even if for only a mom...more

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I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not there, what you see is the memory of w...more

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I was always alone, Doc, solitary whether I wished to be or not, ever since I could remember I wished to be lost in another, thought that somehow I co...more