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“I look at her, wondering what it is about her that makes me want to simultaneously devote my life to her and get as far away from her as I can possibly get.” quote by Jonathan Tropper — Download Open image

““I look at her, wondering what it is about her that makes me want to simultaneously devote my life to her and get as far away from her as I can possibly get.””

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“There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.”

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“In my family, we don’t so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative.”

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“Do I really look so pathetic to all of you? Like I couldn't possibly meet someone on my own? Half the people in the world are women. Odds are that at least a few of them would be willing to go out with me.' 'Damn right,' Phillip chimes in. 'And it's not like he's been celibate since he moved out.…

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“Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature,” he says. “Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of routine social…

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“It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.”

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I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

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“Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card. P.15”

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“We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact…

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