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That’s What She Said

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. – Gertrude Stein

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From the late eighteenth century onwards, it is no longer from the practice of community but from being a wanderer that the instinct of fellow-feeling is derived. Thus an essential isolation and silence and loneliness become the carriers of nature and … Continue reading

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What is a book? It’s a working hypothesis you use to get closer to things. —Christa Wolf, City of Angels

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Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. – Edward Abbey

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Pursuit By Sylvia Plath Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit. —Racine There is a panther stalks me down: One day I’ll have my death of him; His greed has set the woods aflame, He prowls more lordly … Continue reading

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The Touch by Ocean Vuong* We slept on the floor, our bones cushioned with cardboard. Behind the wall, someone was humming a lullaby. I felt the hardwood tremble, my mother’s shoulder quivering against my back, the sound of tears flooding … Continue reading

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It is a system that battens on one of our least attractive attributes. You can say that alternative systems have not worked, but that’s not necessarily the case. When you look at the Nordic countries, I would myself say that … Continue reading

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People get so caught up with the rhinestones. —Mickalene Thomas

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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. -Mahatma Gandhi

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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. —Eudora Welty, from her story ‘The Wide Net’

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