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  1. Richard Brautigan _ Revenge of the Lawn: Stories

    I have emotions that are like newspapers that read themselves. I go for days at a time trapped in the want ads. I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I'm yours ghosts and all.
    book-quoteghostspastsadness

  2. John Cheever _ The Stories of John Cheever

    All scornful descriptions of American landscapes with ruined tenements, automobile dumps, polluted rivers, jerry-built ranch houses, abandoned miniature golf links, cinder deserts, ugly hoardings, unsightly oil derricks, diseased elm trees, eroded farmlands, gaudy and fanciful gas stations, unclean motels, candlelit tearooms, and streams paved with beer cans, for these are not, as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization but are the temporary encampments and outposts of the civilization that we – you and I – shall build."
    book-quotecivilizationruins

  3. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    Out along the dim six-o'clock street, I saw leafless trees standing, striking the sidewalk there like wooden lightning, concrete split apart where they hit, all in a fenced-in ring. An iron line of pickets stuck out of the ground along the front of a tangleweed yard, and on back was a big frame house with a porch, leaning a rickety shoulder hard into the wind so's not to be sent tumbling away a couple of blocks like an empty cardboard grocery box.
    book-quoteold-housesruins

  4. Sophie Kinsella _ The Undomestic Goddess

    There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
    book-quotetruthresilienceruins
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