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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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supporting home industries

We sat in a dark booth and Madame Z. ordered a martini. An American martini, she said twice. The doctor crumpled and sagged over a beer, a Heineken. Supporting home industries, his wife said.

—p.97 Sleepless Nights Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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love affairs with their energy and hope

Love affairs with their energy and hope do not arrive again and again, forever. So, you no longer play tennis, no longer move from place to place in the summer, no longer understand what use you can make of the sight of the Andes or the columns of Luxor.

—p.95 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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I am up in Maine and the men come to fix things

Sometimes when I am up in Maine and the men come to fix things—handsome, attractive people that they are, coming to fix a pipe, to measure, to take apart a motor, to drag a car to the garage—often then I find myself falling into a flirtatiousness, a sort of love for their look, their sunburned face…

—p.77 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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apostate

in your cloudy eyes there is the same misty defense against apostasy that recalls to me Mason in his stubborn cigarette clouds

—p.69 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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Mason at least knew one pure, perfect joy

Mason at least knew one pure, perfect joy. That was to go to the polling station near the courthouse and to write in the names of Communist Party candidates on election day.

—p.69 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick