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John Douglas and Mark Olshaker Mindhunter: Inside the FBIs Elite Serial Crime Unit (1995)

, 26 2011 . 11:44 +
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Elizabeth Gilbert Committed (2010)

, 02 2011 . 11:44 +
verbava (free_readings) Elizabeth Gilbert Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

 (265x400, 49Kb)I had failed at marriage and thus I was terrified of marriage, but I'm not sure this made me an expert on marriage; this only made me an expert on failure and terror, and those particular fields are already crowded with experts.

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"How did he die, Mai?"
"He died," she said coolly, and that settled it. Her father had died of death. The way people used to die, I suppose, before we knew very much about why or how.

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In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are. So if you ask any typical modern Western woman how she met her husband, when she met her husband, and why she fell in love with her husband, you can be plenty sure that you will be told a complete, complex, and deeply personal narrative which that woman has not only spun carefully around the entire experience, but which she has memorized, internalized, and scrutinized for clues as to her own selfhood. Moreover, she will more than likely share this story with you quite openly--even if you are a perfect stranger. In fact, I have found over the years that the question "How did you meet your husband?" is one of the best conversational icebreakers ever invented. In my experience, it doesn't even matter whether that woman's marriage has been happy or a disaster: It will still be relayed to you as a vitally important story about her emotional being--perhaps even the most vitally important story about her emotional being.

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Whatever the details, you can be certain that the modern Western woman's love story will have been examined by her from every possible angle, and that, over the years, her narrative will have been either hammered into a golden epic myth or embalmed into a bitter cautionary tale.

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Here comes the single most interesting fact I've learned about the entire history of marriage: Everywhere, in every single society, all across the world, all across time, whenever a conservative culture of arranged marriage is replaced by an expressive culture of people choosing their own partners based on love, divorce rates will immediately begin to skyrocket.

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Bernard Werber LEncyclopedie Du Savoir Relatif Et Absolu (1993)

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Truman Capote In Cold Blood (1965)

, 10 2011 . 10:15 +
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Kurt Vonnegut Timequake (1997)

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John Pudney Lewis Carroll and His World (1976)

, 29 2010 . 18:23 +
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Susanna Kaysen Girl, Interrupted (1993)

, 14 2010 . 11:58 +
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David Sheff Beautiful Boy (2008)

, 18 2010 . 19:44 +
Sam-VM (free_readings) David Sheff Beautiful Boy

"I'm happy. I know where she is. I know she is alive. Last year we were so excited she was enrolled at Harvard. Now I'm relieved that she is in jail."

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"Alcohol does the same damage over a much longer term. Drugs get it over quicker. That's the only difference."

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"No one starts out hoping to become an addict; they just like drugs. No one starts out hoping for a heart attack; they just like fried chicken."

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"Parents can only be as happy as their unhappiest child, according to an old saw."

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"Every time we reach a point where we feel we can't bear it any more, we do. I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and to tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate. He's just experimenting. Going through a stage. It's only marijuana. he gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs. At least it's not heroin. He would never resort to needles. At least he's alive"

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Nic Sheff TWEAK (2007)

, 18 2010 . 19:36 +
Sam-VM (free_readings) Nic Sheff TWEAK: growing up on methamphetamines

"I felt like everyone else had gotten this instruction manual that explained life to them, but somehow I'd just missed it. They all seemed to know exactly what they were doing while I didn't have a clue."

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"She sounds kind of annoyed with me for not having coming over, but I don't care. Isn't that the greatest gift in the world - just not to care? I feel so grateful for it. That's nothing I ever knew sober"

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"We are two people helping each other through life. The satisfaction of being there for someone else is unparalleled. This has been a fucked-up way to learn that lesson, but in my mind, it's been worth it. And you also get to see how, without a doubt, that the more you give to others the more gifts you receive. That is a universal truth. It will never fail you."

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"You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant."

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"I'm listening to music as loud as it'll go. It's like if the music is loud enough, I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts."


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Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast (1964)

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Ernest Hemingway Green Hills of Africa (1935)

, 10 2010 . 22:47 +
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