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A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010)
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But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys.
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She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.
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Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.
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When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?
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No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.
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Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.
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Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn't expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.
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I don't want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.
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Stu walked Bennie over to Chris in the chair and parted his hair to reveal some tan little creatures the size of poppy seeds moving around on his scalp. Bennie felt himself grow faint.'Lice' the barber whispered.'They get it at school'. 'But he goes to private school' Bernie had blurted.'In Crandale, New York!
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There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.
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Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.
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If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.
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A swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff
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Real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you...
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Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"—usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.
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The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.
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Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.
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It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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September 7, 1962
(age 61)
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