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Ballroom_Pink edited the memorable quotes of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 7 days ago.
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Serotta_tigrrrl edited the memorable quotes of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3 weeks ago.
- Edited a quotation: “Back when the rest of us were learning to play wall ball and pitch quarters and drive
upour older brothers' cars and sneak dead soldiers from under our parents' eyes, he was gorging himself on a steady stream of Lovecraft, Wells, Burroughs, Howard, Alexander, Herbert, Asimov, Bova, and Heinlein, and even the Old Ones who were already beginning to fade--E.E. "Doc" Smith, Stapledon, and the guy who wrote all the Doc Savage books--moving hungrily from book to book, author to author, age to age.”
- Edited a quotation: “Back when the rest of us were learning to play wall ball and pitch quarters and drive
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Serotta_tigrrrl edited the memorable quotes of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3 weeks ago.
- Added a quotation: “Back when the rest of us were learning to play wall ball and pitch quarters and drive up older brothers' cars and sneak dead soldiers from under our parents' eyes, he was gorging himself on a steady stream of Lovecraft, Wells, Burroughs, Howard, Alexander, Herbert, Asimov, Bova, and Heinlein, and even the Old Ones who were already beginning to fade--E.E. "Doc" Smith, Stapledon, and the guy who wrote all the Doc Savage books--moving hungrily from book to book, author to author, age to age.”
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John G edited the memorable quotes of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Monday, April 16, 2012.
- Edited a quotation: “You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of
tentacletentacles growing out of your chest.”
- Edited a quotation: “You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of
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John G edited the memorable quotes of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Monday, April 16, 2012.
- Added a quotation: “You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacle growing out of your chest.”
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Shelfari edited the memorable quotes of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Friday, October 22, 2010.
- Edited a quotation: “The fat! The miles of stretch marks! The tumescent horribleness of his proportions! He looked straight out of a Daniel Clowes comic book. Or like the fat blackish kid in Beto Hernandez's Palomar.
JesusJesus Christ, he whispered. I'm a Morlock.”
- Edited a quotation: “The fat! The miles of stretch marks! The tumescent horribleness of his proportions! He looked straight out of a Daniel Clowes comic book. Or like the fat blackish kid in Beto Hernandez's Palomar.
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Jared T edited the memorable quotes of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Saturday, July 17, 2010.
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<Oscar> wrote:So this is what everybody's always talking about! Diablo! If only I'd known. The beauty! The beauty!”Oscar
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Jared T edited the memorable quotes of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Saturday, July 17, 2010.
- Added a quotation: “<...> what really got <Oscar> was not the bam-bam-bam of sex- it was the little intimacies that he'd never in his whole life anticipated, like combing her hair or getting her underwear off a line or watching her walk naked to the bathroom or the way she would suddenly sit on his lap and put her face into his neck. The intimacies like listening to her tell him about being a little girl and him telling her that he'd been a virgin all his life. He wrote that he couldn't believe he'd had to wait for this so goddamn long.”Yunior
- Added a quotation: “(Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.)”Yunior
- Added a quotation: “<Oscar> wrote: So this is what everybody's always talking about! Diablo! If only I'd known. The beauty! The beauty!”
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Jared T edited the memorable quotes of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Saturday, July 17, 2010.
- reordered the memorable quotes.
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Jared T edited the memorable quotes of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Saturday, July 17, 2010.
- Added a quotation: “It's never the changes we want that change everything.”Lola de León
- Added a quotation: “<Oscar> told them, that what they were doing was wrong, that they were going to take a great love out of the world. Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him. He told them about Ybon and the way he loved her and how much they had risked and that they'd started to dream the same dreams and say the same words. He told them that it was only because of her love that he'd been able to do the thing that he had done, the thing they could no longer stop, told them if they killed him they would probably feel nothing either, not until they were old and weak or about to be struck by a car and then they would sense him waiting for them on the other side and over there he wouldn't be no fatboy or dork or kid no girl had ever loved; over there he'd be a hero, an avernger. Because anything you can dream (he put his hand up) you can be.”Yunior
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