#memoir

The entire partying lifestyle was superficial in my experience, and most of my friendships were as deep as a shot glass and as short-lived as a pack of cigarettes. ↗

— Kate Madison

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Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent. ↗

— Steve Martin

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The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. ↗

— Dorothy Gallagher

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Lesson learned: Don’t ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It’s too easy for him to tip over and fall off. ↗

— Kate Madison

#guys #memoir #pedestal #dating

Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you’re his second choice, don’t make him your first. ↗

— Kate Madison

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Those who live in memories are never really dead." The House At Riverton ↗

— Kate Morton

#memoir #memories #death

Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace. ↗

— Mark Matousek

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Tatiana is a ridiculously curvy thing of dreams, with smooth succulent thighs, long strawberry blond cascading beneath a teal bandana, and a nympho sparkle in her eyes that says pick me, lick me, spank me, or I punish you. Raw innocence and mayhem at once. ↗

— Brett Tate

#funny #humor #humour #memoir #sex

I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm. ↗

— Jason Najum

#essay #memoir #pop-culture #relationship

I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered. They made other ideas seem mean....I had miles of Bible in memory: some perforce, but most by hap, like the words to songs. There was no corner of my brain where you couldn't find, among the files of clothing labels and heaps of rocks, among the swarms of protozoans and shelves of novels, whole tapes and snarls and reels of Bible. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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