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#1

“I have learned that we all contain multitudes and hypocrisies and that change is slow moving. I've learned that reconciliation has to occur between the parts of ourselves that are fragmented and wounded.”
― Parker T. Hurley

tags: healing, inspirational, learning, lgbtq, reconciliation, self-discovery

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#2

“I have always mistrusted the phrase "standing on the shoulders of giants," because although I respect and pay homage to the brilliance and resilience of my ancestors, I'm fairly certain that they were not giants, but as powerful and as vulnerable as I am.”
― Parker T. Hurley

tags: ancestors, lgbtq, queer, social-justice, social-movements

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#3

“Home was a ship that was at the bottom of the sea, where my mother's bones lay sleeping.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

tags: family, home, loneliness, sea

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#4

“Like fifty million other losers, Anthony was caught up in the game, his misfortune temporarily at bay, his yearning merging with the great national aspiration. From stock traders to kids in Bobigny to Patrick Bruel and José Bové, everyone was on the same page, and it didn't matter whether you were in Paris or Heillange. From the top to the bottom of the pay scale, from the boonies to La Défense, the country was cheering in unison. Basically, the thing was simple. Just do like they do in America: think your country is the best in the world and revel in that forever.”
― Nicolas Mathieu, Leurs enfants après eux

tags: national-identity, sports, translation, william-rodarmor

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#5

“A denial heralded the thrice crowing of a cock, and an insincerity was like the kiss of Judas.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: denial, hyperbole, judas, rejection

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#6

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: age, maturity, sensitivity, twenty-one, vulnerability

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#7

“All that rubbish about souls is simply not true, that you can love a soul independent of the shape it comes in. Our brains are made so that we can only love a cat as a cat and not as a bird or an elephant. If we want to love a cat, we want to see a cat, touch its fur, hear it purr, and get scratched if we get our petting wrong. We don't want to hear it bark, and if the cat started growing feathers, we would kill, study, and finally, exhibit it as a monster.”
― Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

tags: love, perception, prejudice

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#8

“For the first time in my life, I feel like I am being strong for the two of us, like I have broken free from those chains of lipstick and perfect hair and can take pride in my worn feet and the hair around my nipples. And I know that one day we will go shopping together and she will finally be proud of this body we both used to hate so much. I'm sure of it, because recently I have found it in my heart to forgive her. And because all of this is so very lonely sometimes, I have started to wear some of her old clothes, her cardigans and scarves--I was always too fat for everything else--and I think that's a sign that I have started to miss her in that place where I should have loved so long ago. And I admire nothing more than people who have found a way to love their mothers; I think it's the biggest challenge in life, the one thing that would make the world a better place.”
― Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

tags: estrangement, mothers, mothers-and-daughters, parents, self-acceptance, womanhood

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#9

“How often do you get to learn that lesson? That sometimes you just lose?”
― Bryan Washington, Memorial

tags: growing-up, learning, losing, loss

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#10

“I think that our bodies know things long before our minds, Dr. Seligman; they will have all the words written on them long before our tongues can find them and our teeth can pull them apart in the empty space between our gums.”
― Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

tags: instinct, intuition, knowing

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#11

“So many of our stories about nature are about testing ourselves against it, setting ourselves against it, defining our humanity against it.”
― Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

tags: humanity, humankind, man-vs-nature, nature, nature-quotes

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#12

“There is, then, intellectual knowledge--the stuff of research studies and think pieces--and there is experiential knowing. Both are important, and women from all backgrounds might possess both. But we rarely exalt the knowing, which is the only kind of feminism many working women have.”
― Sarah Smarsh, She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

tags: book-smarts, class, feminism, intelligence, knowing, knowledge, street-smarts, women-and-class

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#13

“There's a powerful wisdom in just leaving the bullshit for someone else to fix.”
― Sarah Smarsh, She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

tags: class, street-smarts, wisdom

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#14

“Not having money is time consuming. There are hours spent at laundromats, hours at bus stops, hours at free clinics, hours at thrift stores, hours on the phone with the bank or the credit card company or the phone company over some fee, some little charge, some mistake”
― Eula Biss, Having and Being Had

tags: capitalism, class-struggle, money, time, time-management

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#15

“I'm one of those who are hampered by the psychological hindrance of owning capital.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: capital, capitalism, first-world-problems

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#16

“The romance of treason never occurred to us for the brutally simple reason that you can't betray a country you don't have. (Think about it).”
― James Baldwin, Dark Days

tags: belonging, citizenship, dark-days, national-identity, nationalism, traitor, treason

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#17

“Bad logic was an early warning sign for prejudice.”
― Martin Puchner, The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

tags: logic, misguided, prejudice

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#18

“The theory that languages are tools used for particular purposes, sometimes for many different purposes, means that extinct languages belong neither in a museum of art nor in a museum of natural history. Tools are meant to be surpassed by better tools. Once they are, they should be preserved in a museum of technology, of human ingenuity, of the cultural past.”
― Martin Puchner, The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

tags: ingenuity, language, linguistics

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#19

“What will endure, I hope, is the idea of Rotwelsch, the idea that marginalized groups develop special languages as tools for survival. We often think of such groups in terms of ethnic identity, but the identity of Rotwelsch speakers was defined by being outside the order of settled society, period. From this position as complete outsiders, they forged an identity by borrowing from the languages around them, with astonishing resilience and inventiveness. Having been cast out from society, they created an idiom that expressed their hard-earned wisdom, their willingness to live differently, and their sheer will to survive.”
― Martin Puchner, The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

tags: identity, itinerant, languages, linguistics, resilience, rotwelsch

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#20

“We must become friends before this coffee cools.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

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#21

“Negativity is food for malady, one might say.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

tags: depression, malady, negativity, psychosomatic, sadness

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#22

“Avery and Zib might have stayed where they were, watching the stranger dwindle in the distance. They might have chosen to run, to seek other ways of warming themselves, for they were both reasonably cautious children with no interest in breaking their parents' hearts. But they were cold, and they were wet, and the Up-and-Under had a way of wearing such caution away, a little bit at a time, replacing them with curiosity and the quiet conviction that sometimes, the right thing was to follow.”
― A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall

tags: caution, journeys, kids, lost-children, stranger-danger, strangers, trust, trusting-strangers

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#23

“Frightened means you've the sense to be afraid, and it's cowards who get things done, more often than not.”
― A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall

tags: being-afraid, being-scared, cowards, frightened, justification

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#24

“No one looks like a girl, or a boy, or an elm tree, or anything else. Someone either is or isn't a thing, and the world can put as many layers on top of the thing as it likes; won't change what's underneath.”
― A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall

tags: acceptance, gender, identity

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#25

“Girls who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and learn more than they were ever meant to know.”
― A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall

tags: empowerment, girls, ignored, power

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#26

“Sometimes anger is a good, true thing, because the world is so often unfair, and unfairness deserves to be acknowledged. But all too often, anger is another feeling in its Sunday clothes, sadness or envy or--most dangerous of all--fear.”
― A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall

tags: anger, emotional-intelligence

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#27

“It's better to forget a home than to lose it,”
― A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall

tags: belonging, forgetting, grief, home, loss

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#28

“That is to say: Toward the accomplishment of an aim which in wantonness of malignity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement sagacious and sound. These men are true madmen, and of the most dangerous sort, for their lunacy is not continuous but occasional, evoked by some special object; it is probably secretive, which is as much to say it is self-contained, so that when moreover, most active, it is to the average mind not distinguishable from sanity, and for the reason above suggested that whatever its aims may be--and the aim is never declared--the method and the outward proceeding are always perfectly rational.”
― Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor

tags: herman-melville, insanity, sociopath, sociopathy

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#29

“Edoardo Giambattista Freschi-Valeri"
"You need a day's vacation just to say his name,”
― Sacha Naspini, Nives

tags: italian-names

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#30

“(anger is important fuel for ending an ill-fated love affair)”
― Sacha Naspini, Nives

tags: advice, anger, dating, ex-boyfriends, ex-girlfriends, love, love-affair, unrequited-love

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