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This is one of the great human mysteries: why do works of art about bad things such as loss and depr...

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Robert PinskyThe Handbook of Heartbreak: 101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the ro...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Conservatism -- hard work -- saving one's money -- looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Evel...

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If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at ob...

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The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even livi...

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