May 2009
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“This is it, I thought. I’m alone now. I looked down the street to be sure....”
– Miranda July
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“He would stay on his knees, just like this. She would see him this way and...”
– Miranda July
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A History in Six Couplets, Idra Novey
Called a bird, the distant dying city died as a bird.
Dogs circled it, gray mud caked on their haunches.
And all around, a kind of tilting.
All around, chunks of concrete like torn bread.
When asked about hunger, the children replied with hunger.
When asked about birds, they opened their mouths to the sky.
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“There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your...”
– Dostoevsky
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“Don’t wait to be sure. Move, move, move.”
– Miranda July
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“He reached around and pulled me down onto his back and I lay there, like on the...”
– Miranda July
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“I was actually just standing there in love. I was not even really standing; if...”
– Miranda July
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“With one foot in the bath, I stood waiting for her to return. I waited an...”
– Miranda July
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“I pulled the phone into the bed and slept for three days. At intervals I would...”
– Miranda July
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“I was never good at jumping in, letting go of one element and embracing another....”
– Miranda July
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“Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings.”
– Shakespeare, Richard II
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“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Sensible Thing”
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