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All That Life Can Afford

by Emily Everett (欧宝娱乐 Author)

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“[it was not a] circle鈥攋ust a concrete platform with a pay phone and a sign that read EUCLID CIRCLE. I thought Euclid would have been mad.
鈥淭hat鈥檚 so typical of your attitude,鈥� Svetlana said. 鈥淵ou always think everyone is angry. Try to have some perspective. It鈥檚 over two thousand years after his death, he鈥檚 in Boston for the first time, they鈥檝e named something after him鈥攚hy should his first reaction be to get pissed off?”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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“What did you bring your host family?'
'Chocolate.'
'Chocolate.' She sighed.
'I'm afraid I'll accidentally eat it all before I get there,' I said, following the rule that you had to pretend to have this problem where you couldn't resist chocolate.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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