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Quote from Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

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Quote from Padgett Powell, Mrs. Hollingsworth’s Men

She thought it funny how the poor environment had been raped just fine until there was a sufficient excess of the people who had effected the raping to produce sufficient numbers of themselves who were sufficiently idle that they might begin to protest the raping of the environment, which was irretrievably lost to the raping by that point.And this would be the great soothing cathedral music, the stopping of the chainsaws amid the patter of acid rain, that all good citizens would listen to for the quarter-century it took them all to wire up to cyberspace and forget about the lost hopeless run-over gang-ridden land, reproducing madly still all the while, inside their bunkers listening to NPR.

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Quote from Julie Garwood, Honor’s Splendour

I am ever a gentle maiden,” she shouted. “Damn if I’m not.

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Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very

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Quote from Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

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Quote from Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

cuando se es joven hay que ser un cero a la izquierda, pues no existe nada más perjudicial que destacar pronto, prematuramente, en cualquier cosa.

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Quote from Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window–maybe rearrange all the furniture.

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Quote from Robin Jones Gunn, Peculiar Treasures

In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night– the restrictions, rules, and guidelines– was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.

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Quote from Adam Gidwitz, A Tale Dark & Grimm

You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage

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