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“It was embarrassing that a Gus Van Sant film featured a character whose psychological profile wasn’t that far from Julius’s own.”
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“The only evidence of discord in the Faulkners’ bedrooms was the window AC unit in Estelle’s, installed the day after William’s funeral, because he hated air-conditioning so much he wouldn’t let her install it while he was alive.”
“and I would lean in close and tell you that John Wick kills women like / he’s read feminist theory”
“I thought I was punk because I would often show up to work with a gin hangover.”
“Life without God’s love is like a donut, ’cause there’s a hole in the middle of your heart!”
“I swam fast toward the rocks—the sting of a jellyfish couldn’t be worse than listening to him go on about his mother.”
“And Cathay was not China. / And Vietnam was not China / Nor made in China—but close enough.”