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She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.Alex Shakar
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That's the problem with relationships, " George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?Alex Shakar
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He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner surface of his skull pulsing like a single, giant nerve being chewed by some ruminant animal.Alex Shakar