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“Elegant revenge is great. The perfect revenge that lets people see who they actually are for a moment.” quote by Patrick Somerville — Download Open image

“Elegant revenge is great. The perfect revenge that lets people see who they actually are for a moment.”

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“I don't think of love in terms of relationships. It happens in terms of seconds, but it goes away like that, too. I pass a nurse, I love her, it ends when I go around a corner; at a restaurant I see a forlorn man at the table next to me, and I love him, and the conversation pulls me…

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“I say, "My trigger is everything in the universe." Everyone laughs. I stare back at them, one by one. I hate it when I make people laugh. It's unintentional. I don't joke. To clear this up, I stare at Dr. Billy for a long time. Yes, like a threat. "I know we sometimes feel that way," says Dr. Billy, after…

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“In the end nothing matters but the work. You can’t control how it’s taken, and the act of telling a story always involves a gap. Sometimes confusion is the risk of ambiguity–I say that to students all the time. It’s true at the fireside and it’s true in the parlor, and it’s true in made-up towns and New York. Two…

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“Nobody, anywhere, has any real sense what is actually going on." This doesn't seem to get a very good reaction from the crowd -…

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I really think you cannot ever escape your history, what you've done, who you are, and things you've tried to hide. Even if no…

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“I am a tea, he thought. I am some kind of tea. And I have wishes.”

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Puzzles are great because they're fun. But really we are drawn to puzzles because they can be solved. We love the idea of being…

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“Ululation. We got animals inside of us, man. We've got all this power. - “The Son”

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I feel like I've been lucky that I've never been put in a situation where I had to keep a serious secret. But what…

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“Human beings, you see, fall apart all the time. In many different ways. That is the central theme. There is no need to disguise…

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