"I first emailed Tao Lin a story I wrote about the experience of losing my virginity sometime in April 2011. He didn't respond until it was later published on Thought Catalog, after which he sent me an email that said something very similar to, "I enjoyed reading this on Thought Catalog. Good job.""

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Marie Calloway

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“I was forced to go to Cotillion when I was in seventh grade. So I learned what fork is what and dance steps.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.”
“When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. His chief failing was, perhaps, that of all the great artists, he was the most lacking in exuberance. That is why he began to be scorned in a world which rated exuberance higher than beauty or love or pity.”
“Faith is a belief in things that your senses have not experienced and your mind does not understand, but you have touched them in other ways and have accepted them. It is easy for one to speak of faith; it is another thing to live it.”
“I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.”
“Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.”

Source : 1936 Rhett Butler. Gone with the Wind, ch.9.
“Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'”

Source : Farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, New York, N.Y., 4 July 1939.
“For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.”

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