The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten. - Sloane Crosley

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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Sloane Crosley

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

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I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information. . . . my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of 'loving each other very, very much,' explained that when a man and a woman hug tightly, the man plants a seed in the woman. The seed grows into a baby. Then she sent me to the pantry to get placemats. As a direct result of this conversation, I wouldn't hug my father for two months.

Baby, Hug, Mother, Placemats, Sex, Tightly

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Afford, Ask, Being Alone, Being Single, Love, Love You

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

High, Kinds, People, School, Two, Yearbook

I was surprised by how much I loved Portland. It is so wonderfully creative without being artsy. Great food scene.

Creative, Food, Portland, Scene

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Brain, Growing, Like, Reality, Tree, Trees

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President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.

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Be less about protecting any type of identity affiliated to a country or even ethnic background. Be more about the fact that we're here for a short time and Heaven is going to be a rainbow of people, multiculture, every generation.

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