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It always ended this way. Late afternoon and again in bed, staring at the wall. 3 pm…it could collapse you, the way the sunlight comes in, angular, moving, to only again disappear.

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Call me a literary schadenfreudist, but I like books about writers who fail at life.

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Caribbean women are inherently sensual, we have a unique feminine confidence and I wouldn’t mess with an island girl if I wasn’t one, but Rihanna is taking it to a point of vulgarity that separates her from that.

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Since lady parts-owner Alice Munro just won the Nobel Prize for Literature, making her the 13th woman in the award’s 112 year history, there’s no time better than the present to share some of the 21st century’s other talented female writers.

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Several weeks ago, seeing Tao Lin and Sarah Nicole Prickett corresponding with (what seemed to me) some tension over Twitter, I had the feeling that it would be very pleasurable to hear them talk about flowers.

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I’d planned to die at thirty, and then I’d push it on ten years, forty, and then fifty. You always push it on. And then you go on and on and on. It’s difficult.

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Good morning Thought Catalog community! Today is Tao Lin Day on TC.

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From Julio Cortázar to Virginia Woolf to Luna Miguel and Andy Warhol, these are authors and books I love.