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• I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?
• If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the…
• Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.
• I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like…
• She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for…
• In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get…
• A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]
• My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.
• We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.
• In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.
• You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
• Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

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