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Chappelle did such a good job of truth-telling, on every subject, that nobody knew what to do when he just stopped talking.

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Everyone says our generation is self-obsessed. Well, I don’t care.

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“I should adore to wear the orange-lined cloak: I do feel the need of something spectacular.”

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Many people know of Jack Kerouac’s fiction, but few know of his penchant for recording his dreams.

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Why do so many people want to write when people are statistically reading less, “all the good books have already been written,” literature is a marginalized artform, etc?

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I was watching a popular reality show marathon when I spotted a guy who caught my attention. A booming laugh made my head fin, and I thought, “He seems fun. God, that laugh. And he has hair like Morrissey.”

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Picture someone at a large publishing company rejecting Gary Lutz because he is “too difficult to read” before going to lunch at the Four Seasons, laughing something-something sucking snails going “this guy thinks he’s Proust or some shit but I need the numbers where are the numbers you’ve got the numbers” over a pair of sparkling cocktails with Nicholas Sparks or whoever is topping the charts…