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“To be able to die of old age and be put to rest with a lavish funeral required exceptional talent.” – Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain (trans. Mabel Lee) Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“Non-existence exists so there is non-existence of existence; non-existence of existence exists so there is non-existence of non-existence.” – Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain (trans. Mabel Lee) Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“Let’s call it love—you don’t deserve it, you’ve known all along, but then somebody as misguided and hopeless as you are shows up and you think: maybe.” – Kimberly King Parsons, “Wisdom to Know the Difference” Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“There’s a reason people in foodwork stay up late, drinking and drugging. Your shift ends and hours later you’re still sweating from those burners, amped up and pissed at whichever customer or coworker screwed you the hardest.” – Kimberly King Parsons, “Wisdom to Know the Difference” Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“If you think she is beautiful she will be beautiful, if there is evil in your heart you will only see demons.” – Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain (trans. Mabel Lee) Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“Who doesn’t want to go down in the annals of history and moreover be able to draw advance overtime payments as well as a writer’s fee?” – Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain (trans. Mabel Lee) Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“If they understand anything, writers know that the world is not characterized by absolute clarity.” – Ben Yagoda, About Town Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“Nuclear energy insists on global government, on law, on order, and on the willingness of the community to take the responsibility for the acts of the individual.” – E. B. White, The New Yorker, August 18, 1945 Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“I went on through the post town of Sekimoto, where the citizens in their rows of houses offer lodgings and wait upon the traveler as their master for a night, while the girls singing in the windows entice him in to treat him as a husband. How sad, to pin such vows of eternal love […]

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“The fisherman hauls his nets, tiring his body in the very act of shielding it from starvation; the starving fish takes the bait, its very need for life condemning it to death. Just how much can a man profit in this world; how much can a little fish consume? Each feels the same about existence, […]

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“Plop a baby human into a group of chimps and ask them to raise him, Tarzan style, and the human as an adult will know how to run around the forest, climb trees, find food, and masturbate. That’s who each of us actually is.” – Tim Urban, “Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future” Share this… […]

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“No one ever really falls in love with anyone they know. To fall in love with someone that one knows is to fall in love with someone that one already fell in love with a long time ago.” – Tan Lin, “Ambient Stylistics” Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“There is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world—by a teacher, a writer, anyone—is a judgment. The judgement that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.” – Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United […]

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“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose conscientiously whether she will or will not be a mother.” – Margaret Sanger, Woman and the New Race Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“The struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass (quoted by Howard Zinn in A People’s History of the United […]

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“Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles or gives me any best place. And a’nt I a woman? Look at my arm! I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And a’nt I a woman? I would work as much and eat as much as a […]

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“To say that the Declaration of Independence, even by its own language, was limited to life, liberty, and happiness for white males is not to denounce the makers and signers of the Declaration for holding the ideas expected of privileged males of the eighteenth century. Reformers and radicals, looking discontentedly at history, are often accused […]

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“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” – Professor Moran Cerf (quoted by Tim Urban in “Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future”) Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“There are no empty hopes. But knowing what to hope for is steady work. What was ever so important to you you left your daily life to heed it?” – Joanna Klink, “The Infinities” Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“If you’ve ever been in a fight with someone you love, each of you holding the pistol of your dignity to the other’s temple, despite, or maybe because of, the width and breadth of that love, which has you pretty sure you’ve been mistaken for her father, while she’s fairly certain she’s again found someone […]

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“Seamen are a class of persons remarkable for their rashness, thoughtlessness, and improvidence. They are generally necessitous, ignorant of the nature and extent of their own rights and privileges, and for the most part incapable of duly appreciating their value. They combine, in a singular manner, the apparent anomalies of gallantry, extravagance, profusion in expenditure, […]

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The crews of large ships are distributed into classes, according to their different capacities; and thus the grade of one’s seamanship may be ascertained by the station he may have held. The classification is stated in Van Heytbuysen’s Marine Evidence, p. 9, as follows: Quarter-masters, Boatswain’s mates, Gunners and Gunners’ mates, Forecastle-men — Best seamen […]

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“Intelligence is the ability to solve a problem, to decipher a riddle, to master a set of facts. Judgment is the ability to orbit a problem or a set of facts and see it as it might be seen through other eyes, by observers with different biases, motives, and backgrounds.” – James Comey, A Higher […]

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“There is a certain freedom in being totally screwed, in knowing you will be attacked no matter what you do.” – James Comey, A Higher Loyalty Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“Torture is wrong. Don’t be the torture guy.” – Patrice Comey (quoted by James Comey in A Higher Loyalty) Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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