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" Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. "
Laurie Anderson
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" Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them. "
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" As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. "
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