Slim is queer and though Nelson isn't supposed to mind that he does. He also minds that there are a couple of slick blacks making it at the party and that one little white girl with that grayish kind of sharp-chinned Polack face from the south side of Brewer took off her shirt while dancing even though she has no tits to speak of and now sits in the kitchen with still bare tits getting herself sick on Southern Comfort and Pepsi. At these parties someone is always in the bathroom being sick or giving themselves a hit or a snort and Nelson minds this too. He doesn't mind any of it very much, he's just tired of being young. There's so much wasted energy to it. John Updike
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  1. It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
  2. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
  3. If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
  4. The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
  5. Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
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