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Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfi...

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When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous...

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I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m us...

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David Foster WallaceA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to beg...

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As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. ...

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My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand.

Pain was a torn piece of paper.

Breasts were one thing: they were in front, where you could have some control over them. Then there ...

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I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more...

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A united front announcing a split.

Frightened people live in their own special hell.

And his soul plunged downward, drowning in that deep pit: he felt that could never again escape from...

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Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greates...

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Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

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Alfred BesterThe Stars My Destination