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• I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.
• Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
• In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
• Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was…
• Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.
• Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but…
• Seattle is this curious liberal island.
• Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and…
• I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind!…
• In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's…
• In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities,…
• The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting,…

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