A Certain Hunger

Челси Саммерс

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Yana_Saykova29 ноября 2023 г.
В богатстве и бедности, болезни и здравии, пока смерть не разлучит нас — пожизненное заключение похоже на брак без свадьбы.
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ErnestaRun5 октября 2024 г.
Даже неврологи признают, что как только речь заходит о человеческом мозге, они превращаются в Христофора Колумба: ищут новый маршрут в Азию, а открывают Америку
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ErnestaRun4 октября 2024 г.
Отельные бары пахнуть классовыми приведениями, отчаянием и надеждой
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darinakh12 апреля 2023 г.
You never see as many innocent people as you do in prison. Everyone here is stuck in the limbo of their own appeal, buffeted in eternal circles with their arms wrapped around sheaves of legal paper. The bubble-wrap of self-delusion swaddles all convicts; they think they’re this close to being sprung free. Almost all are wrong.
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Alex_Winter7 апреля 2022 г.
...женщина — тот же обед из «Макдоналдса»: не важно, настоящая это еда или нет, важно только, что она вкусная.
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darinakh14 апреля 2023 г.
The choices that we have, the choices that we make—these choices condemn us, constrain us, and create us. This is life at its most essential, a series of decisions that leads to your inexorable end and your desperate, muffled hope that you may be celebrated when it comes.
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darinakh14 апреля 2023 г.
There’s nothing like a group of felons for the swift detection of total bullshit. Our ability to sniff out mendacity is as keen as our abilities to lie to ourselves and, more important, to others.
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darinakh12 апреля 2023 г.
I’d been writing about food. Everyone in food seemed to know everyone else; it was one long human centipede of fuckwittery, where not only was everyone suddenly a writer or a celebrity, but also chefs and sommeliers and even bloody butchers were stars, crossing oceans and running symposiums, Facebooking and tweeting and Snapchatting about the whole incestuous, writhing mess. It was an ugly, self-cannibalizing machine of gratuitous glad-handing, but who am I to buck convention when convention serves me.
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darinakh11 апреля 2023 г.
I loved him, I suppose, but it was the love of an itchy sweater that looks too good on you to throw it away. Every time you slip into that sweater, you know you’re going to get compliments and admiring glances, and every moment you’re alone, you’re going to scratch your flesh raw.
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darinakh13 апреля 2023 г.
Alex was a man so good he was good enough for us both, and I don’t like good people. Good is round as a spoon. There’s no edge in good.
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