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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:58:01 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Erin add a quote by R.D. Ronald]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times." -- R.D. Ronald]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7429306-recovered-had-my-personality-crossed-over-that-border-whatever-and</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:58:35 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Erin add a quote by Susanna Kaysen ]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7429306-recovered-had-my-personality-crossed-over-that-border-whatever-and]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Recovered. Had my personality crossed over that border, whatever and wherever it was, to resume life within the confines of normal? Had I stopped arguing with my personality and learned to straddle the line between sane and insane?" -- Susanna Kaysen ]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10192994-you-will-go-home-and-snort-a-small-amount-of</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:59:09 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Erin add a quote by Alissa Nutting]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10192994-you-will-go-home-and-snort-a-small-amount-of]]>
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	    <![CDATA["You will go home and snort a small amount of the cocaine you keep in the Altoids tin in your pajama drawer. You will robotically fuck your husband until your box feels like a gaping wound. You will be so aggressive that he will be frightened, and his fear will keep you from being completely repulsed by him." -- Alissa Nutting]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/253922-our-heads-are-round-so-thought-can-change-direction</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:59:42 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Erin add a quote by Allen Ginsberg]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/253922-our-heads-are-round-so-thought-can-change-direction]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Our heads are round so thought can change direction" -- Allen Ginsberg]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/521198-trying-to-be-a-good-mother-may-be-as-distant</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 01:00:14 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Erin add a quote by Lionel Shriver]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/521198-trying-to-be-a-good-mother-may-be-as-distant]]>
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	    <![CDATA["...trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one." -- Lionel Shriver]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 01:00:47 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Erin add a quote by Megan Abbott]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5954797-she-was-the-one-who-showed-me-all-the-dark]]>
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	    <![CDATA["She was the one who showed me all the dark wonders of life, the real life, the life I’d only seen flickering from the corner of my eye. Did I ever feel anything at all until she showed me what feeling meant? Pushing at the corners of her cramped world with curled fists, she showed me what it meant to live." -- Megan Abbott]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/757061-bo-e-wszechmog-cy---pomy-la-nerwowy-jak-wszyscy-bufetowi-andriej-fokicz</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 01:01:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Erin add a quote by Mikhail Bulgakov]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/757061-bo-e-wszechmog-cy---pomy-la-nerwowy-jak-wszyscy-bufetowi-andriej-fokicz]]>
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	    <![CDATA["„Boże wszechmogący!”... - pomyślał nerwowy jak wszyscy bufetowi Andriej Fokicz." -- Mikhail Bulgakov]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/854057-everything-is-perfect-on-the-street-again-the-world-is</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 01:01:54 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Erin add a quote by Jack Kerouac]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/854057-everything-is-perfect-on-the-street-again-the-world-is]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream." -- Jack Kerouac]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 01:02:28 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Erin add a quote by Marisha Pessl]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8065686-how-was-it-possible-scientists-were-able-to-locate-the]]>
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	    <![CDATA["How was it possible scientists were able to locate the edge of the observable universe, the Cosmic Light Horizon (“Our universe is 13.7 billion light years long,” wrote Harry Mills Cornblow, Ph.D., with astounding confidence in The ABCs of the Cosmos [2003]), and yet mere human beings stayed so fuzzy, beyond all calculation?" -- Marisha Pessl]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 01:03:01 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Erin add a quote by Martin Amis]]>
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	    <![CDATA["A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel and feeling fine, and it is no good writing a whole novel feeling miserable. It has to be both, that mixture of anxiety and ambition, and you get that with every novel, but more so when you write about these epics of human suffering. I felt that just as much when I wrote about the Gulag. Every writer knows what that is. The process goes… you have to think: ‘This novel I am writing is no good.’ Then you have to think: ‘All my novels are no good.’ And then, when you reach that point, you can begin." -- Martin Amis]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10786445-where-there-s-a-clark-there-s-a-lewis</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2023 12:14:17 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Erin add a quote by Kyle Keyes]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10786445-where-there-s-a-clark-there-s-a-lewis]]>
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	    <![CDATA["where there's a Clark, there's a Lewis" -- Kyle Keyes]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6774198-today-wrapped-in-the-complacent-armor-of-approaching-middle-age</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2023 12:17:06 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Erin add a quote by Daphne du Maurier]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6774198-today-wrapped-in-the-complacent-armor-of-approaching-middle-age]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Today, wrapped in the complacent armor of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one lightly and are soon forgotten, but then-- how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal." -- Daphne du Maurier]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/427609-the-things-most-people-want-to-know-about-are-usually</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2023 12:18:45 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Erin add a quote by Lewis Carroll]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/427609-the-things-most-people-want-to-know-about-are-usually]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business." -- Lewis Carroll]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2023 12:24:08 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Erin add a quote by William S. Burroughs]]>
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	    <![CDATA["While in general I avoid the use of torture - torture locates the opponent and mobilizes resistance - the threat of torture is useful to induce in the subject the appropriate feeling of helplessness and gratitude to the interrogator for withholding it. And torture can be employed to advantage as a penalty when the subject is far enough along with the treatment to accept punishment as deserved. To this end I devised several forms of disciplinary procedure. One was known as the Switchboard. Electric drills that can be turned on at any time are clamped against the subject's teeth; and he is instructed to operate an arbitrary switchboard, to put certain connections in certain sockets in response to bells and lights. Every time he makes a mistake the drills are turned on for twenty seconds. The signals are gradually speeded up beyond his reaction time. Half an hour on the Switchboard and the subject breaks down like an overloaded thinking machine." -- William S. Burroughs]]>
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