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Charms for the Easy Life, by Kaye Gibbons

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Cliff Schecter (@cliffsedge) This has to be one of the funniest and most truthful things I’ve seen all day

This needs Benny Hill music. substack.com/@cliffsedge/...

Love this one

“I was wrong. I admit it. I believed that there were things which still mattered just because they had mattered once. But I was wrong. Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.” Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner

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"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known." - Cannery Row

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Opening paragraph from:

How Late It Was, How Late; James Kelman (1994).

Love it!

If he didn't deserve the vodka, who the hell did? And the answer of course was that he did deserve the vodka, that everybody deserves it, that it spoke well of anybody to need a little vodka to get through this world.
Harry Crews. Where Does One Go When There's No Place Left To Go?

“Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.” Robert F. Kennedy (Sr)

The magic that gleams an instant between Argos and Odysseus is both the recognition of diversity and the need for affection across the illusions of form. It is nature's cry to homeless, far-wandering, insatiable man: "Do not forget your brethren, nor the green wood from which you sprang. To do so is to invite disaster." Loren Eiseley, The Unexpected Universe

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"Like he just seemed to exit from time, and we all have to keep going, within time."

-- Sally Rooney
"Intermezzo'

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Memoirs of a Geisha

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The Memory Police, by Yoko Ogawa

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Ding-dong, the idiot's gone! No more saccharine commentary from America's most vacuous talking head. This is better than Christmas.

Ding-dong, the idiot's gone!

JD Vance Rushed To Walter Reed After Inner Hillbilly Returns

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Thousands are working, in every state, to get these to you, as we speak!

They should not exist at all.

Lil' Marco has fully bloomed.

Remember, the Nazis in Germany imported our culture and tactics to inform their activities.