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In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!


Marjane Satrapi


#memoir #young_adult #humor

Brighton Beach does not look, smell, or sound like Russia. It's a parody of Russia at best, something as different from the real thing as a picture of the Eiffel Tower. Yes, they sell Russian food on Brighton Beach, and Russian books and videos, and Russian clothes, and there are Russian restaurants and Russian nightclubs, and everybody speaks Russian, but the Russianness of the place is so concentrated that it feels ridiculously exaggerated. Everything Russian on Brighton Beach is too Russian, far more Russian than in real Russia. This is what happens all over Brooklyn. From the Scandinavians of Bay Ridge to the Chinese of Sunset Park, Brooklyn's immigrants go to ridiculous extremes to re-create their homelands only to end up with a vulgar pastiche.


Lara Vapnyar


#brooklyn-was-mine #essays #memoirs #food

The clown was an evil one. They’re either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.


Chris Thrall


#chris-thrall #crystal-meth #drugs #eating-smoke #hong-kong

You can’t just come out and say what you have to say. That’s what people do on airplanes, when a man plops down next to you in the aisle seat of your flight to New York, spills peanuts all over the place (back when the cheapskate airlines at least gave you peanuts), and tells you about what his boss did to him the day before. You know how your eyes glaze over when you hear a story like that? That’s because of the way he’s telling his story. You need a good way to tell your story.


Adair Lara


#writing-advice #writing-craft #writing-craft

In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.


Marjane Satrapi


#memoir #young_adult #humor

I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.


Tina Fey


#humor #memoir #humor

She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes.” ~Once Upon A Time There Was A Girl


Kimberly Kinrade


#memoir #poetry #love

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.


Gabrielle Zevin


#memoirs-of-a-teenage-amnesiac #love

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.


Marjane Satrapi


#humor #memoir #young_adult #humor