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1 " My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage. "
― Jonathan Lethem , As She Climbed Across the Table
2 " My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign. "
3 " My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet. "
4 " The speaker was stringy and angular, his blond hair pulled back in a ponytail, his plaid workman's shirtsleeves rolled up around his pale biceps. Journalism major, I guessed. "
5 " I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice. "
6 " I am relaxed. It's just buried under layers of incredulity and panic. But underneath those I'm very relaxed. "
7 " This kiss would be with me, invisible badge or scar, when I went back to the apartment. "
8 " I gained an insight, a purloined-letter kind of thing. "
9 " We admit the presence of no author, no oeuvre, and no genre. The text stands bare. . . . We admit nothing outside of the text. "
10 " I argue against depth wherever I find it. "
