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Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, • Breasts and Eggs
I am susceptible to frivolity. I know this about myself. I love beauty; I am weak to surfaces; I am apt to mistake eccentricity for character. I drink more than I should. I love overdressing; I love staying up past midnight; I love breakfasts at all-night diners, and the Irish coffees you order when you can’t decide whether it’s night or morning.
Isabella Burton • On Good Parties
She was at an age when the future adult rattles the child’s bones like the bars of a cage.
Maggie Shipstead • Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller

Gone Is The Gonzo
David Pennington • 5 cards
if it was a gig, we…
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Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only with the electric clocks, but the wind-up kind, too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.
Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five
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