13 Quotes by Alex Shakar
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She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.
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That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?
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With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.
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On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.
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Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.
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Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
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He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner surface of his skull pulsing like a single, giant nerve being chewed by some ruminant animal.
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You need contradictions to make an ideal.
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The only spot of comfort was the lingering impression of her fingertips through the fabric of his shirt, a reminder of the good side of having skin. He cultivated that square-inch patch, tilled and tended it into a full-body embrace.
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