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A book is what gets me off: something with heft to it, that you can take in two hands and spread like a woman. Mnyum!

— John Barth The Tidewater Tales (1987)

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The speaker is a heterosexual woman, Katherine Sherritt, who once had a brief lesbian affair.

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'Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

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When a place is central to a good writer's imagination, it is because that place has become a metaphor for larger concerns.

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Is a man a salvage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile manners? Or is salvagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

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I have remarked elsewhere that I regard the Almighty as not a bad novelist, except that He is a realist.

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We tell stories and listen to them because we live stories and live in them.

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