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“Some of us need to risk dying in order to feel like we’re living.”
If you didn’t have black to make the most of the white, everything was gray.
friendships are almost always tied to common geography. If a person isn’t family, then when they move, the connections wither and die.”
“I don’t think we’re supposed to be happy. I mean the big us, humans. I think we’re supposed to struggle. I think that’s because there’s something more important to our psyche than hedonistic happiness.”
“Satisfaction. The satisfaction that comes from achievement. From having worked and produced and accomplished. Adults need it the way babies need milk. And like milk, satisfaction has a shelf life. People can feed off past accomplishments for a couple of weeks, but their mood starts to sour after that.
mountain huckleberry,
