Fiction
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You’ve Changed
“But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been.”
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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Reproduction
“We know today that our bodies keep a complete and faultless record of all the things we have ever experienced.”
- Alice Miller, The Body Never Lies
Not Anyone’s Anything
43% of first marriages end in divorce or separation within fifteen years.
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Nonfiction
What I Mean to Say
All conversation is a magnetic experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude
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Disorientation
One can never really see into the heart, the mind, the soul of another.
- James Baldwin, “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy”
Poetry
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Word Problems
“How does it feel to be a problem?”
- W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
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Personals
“Define loneliness?
Yes.
It’s what we can’t do for each other.”
- Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
You Know Who You Are
“You can’t go thinking you are better than other people just because you can learn poems. Who do you think you are?”
- Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are?