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I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.

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D. H. LawrenceThe First Lady Chatterley

Everything was on television last night

The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with...

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Geoff DyerWorking the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

For in America this season is decreed “family season”. (Eat your hearts out, you pitiable loners who...

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... because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't...

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Playdate. (n) A Date arranged by adults in which young children are brought together, usually at the...

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This person has hoped and dreamed and now it is really happening and this person can hardly believe ...

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One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or...

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If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way