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"We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned. Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat."
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audrey-hepburn
bar
bars
breakfast-at-tiffany-s
cat
drinking
failure
irony
loss
new-beginnings
new-yorkers
snobs
the-recession
vanity
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Gillian Flynn |
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She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to listen to Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. It almost feels like of the three things involved: Mary Elizabeth, me, and the great things, only the first one matters to Mary Elizabeth. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.
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gifts
histrionic-people
kindness
love
obnoxious-people
self-centered-people
selfishness
selflessness
snobs
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Stephen Chbosky |
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Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in unison, 'Row, row, row your yacht...
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kindergarten
snobs
sweet-valley
yacht
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Francine Pascal |