"There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born."

-- Renata Adler

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“She saved my life...and Iâ€™ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.”
“Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.”
“But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.”
“I just made a balls of it, old boy. That's all there was to it.”
“My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts.”
“Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!”
“I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me.”

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