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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
The first impression one gets of Michael Deane is of a man constructed of wax, or perhaps prematurely embalmed. After all these years, it may be impossible to trace the sequence of facials, spa treatments, mud baths, cosmetic procedures, lifts and staples, collagen implants, outpatient touch-ups, tannings, Botox injections, cyst and growth removals, and stem-cell injections that have caused a seventy-two-year-old man to have the face of a nine-year-old Filipino girl.
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story . . . Your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for a while, we're less alone.
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Jess Walter _ The Zero
Guterak looked over. "Hey, you got your hair cut." "Yeah." Remy put the cap back on. "What made you do that?" "I shot myself in the head last night." "Well." Paul drove quietly for a moment, staring straight ahead. "It looks good.
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Jess Walter _ Land of the Blind
How can you not feel like a whole city of people waiting for it to finally be over, a whole city tending a parent's slow death?
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Jess Walter _ Land of the Blind
Spokane is old, and it is beautiful like old things are, lit from within by nostalgia and hard times.
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
Everyone sees the same movie, but every reader experiences a different book, because reading involves you in hours of active, creative work, the characters, their movements and thoughts re-created in your own mind, their struggles and triumphs connecting to your own until a book becomes like a piece of music you've played-and sometimes mastered-over a period of days, or weeks.
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Jess Walter _ We Live in Water
On the bright side, I have figured out how to fix the American educational system. End it at sixth grade." "Brilliant. Then what?" "Lock them up in empty factories, give them all the Red Bull, condoms, and nachos they want, pipe in club music, and check back when they're twenty-five. Anyone still alive, we send to grad school." Wade pushed his glass forward. "How's that for a campaign platform?
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
{"If I looked like you, Debra, I'd masturbate all the time
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
Shit. Claire riffles through worst-case scenarios: The pay is in cocaine;
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Jess Walter _ Land of the Blind
In fact, he talked about his painful and insidious cancer so plainly and without affect that to this day, I consider matter-of-factness a form of courage.
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Jess Walter _ Land of the Blind
buried by random events, ruined by confusion and grief.
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Jess Walter _ The Financial Lives of the
In the waves of layoffs that accompanied these paroxysmal death-throes, this bearded shit-in-a-suit whacked the newspapers most profitable sections and bureaus and its best writers and shooters, all to protect his ring of beholden pets , a phalanx of talent-challenged ass-sniffers and the cadre of bulbous interns that he hired from his Midwest alma mater and it's pretentiously name H-School of Journalism {there are two things that should never be named: j-schools and penises}, an equally overrated institution that he hoped to eventually return to in some kind of endowed bean bag chair.
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