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“The first set had ended things. The second was just to let the air in.”
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“There is no island of lost toys.”
“She would like to believe the appreciation of beauty is never a waste. But this does not an essay write.”
“Ballard’s novels are radical in the true sense, in that they reach back to and reanimate the novel’s very roots.”
“Theoretically we love the forced communions of urban life. Practically we avoid them.”
“it was great to be a little sick with fear but / it’s better to be alive with a driver’s license”
“Keeping a journal is a perilous thing, and we should be warned against it as children.”