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“The main defect of this book is you, reader you were in a hurry to grow old and this book moves slowly. You love direct and continuous narration, and this book and my style are like drunkards, they stagger left and right, they walk and stop, mumble, yell, cackle, shake their fists at the sky, stumble and fall...”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, MEMORIAS PÓSTUMAS DE BRAS CUBAS

“Doxing has come to be classified as a form of violence, in and of itself. What's mildly
amusing is that, prior to the internet, most Americans doxed themselves. Home addresses and telephone numbers were listed in the phone book,
annually distributed to every local home for free. Phone customers were charged a monthly fee if they didn't want their home number included in the directory. And possession of the physical directory wasn't even necessary. It was possible to dial the telephone operator and request an immediate con-
nection to almost anyone's home phone, without consent. All that was needed was the spelling of the person's last name and an educated guess as to the area code in which they lived. How did something once considered a normal extension of establishing
residence become a disturbing act of aggression, during a decade when crime statistically decreased? The explanation is twofold. The first is that the
early internet was built around anonymity. It was populated by people known only by their fabricated screen names, interacting with anonymous strangers they knew nothing about. This established a new expectation of confidentiality, where it was assumed everyone had the inherent right to say or do whatever they wanted online, without those words or actions impinging on
life in the real world.”
― Chuck Klosterman

“Maybe everyone in their 20s is searching for a kind of not-parent not-lover to help them into the world.”
― Joseph Osmundsen

“The memory of what came before, and the willingness to acknowledge the pain of it, might be the first thing we ask for, that we need, from a mentor.”
― Joseph Osmundsen

“None of us
are children long enough
to love it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“After a while I began to see that the horror was more elusive, that it included more than just betrayals and denials and being yanked around in Shier's bed like a rag doll. The enduring horror was that I had learned to accommodate brutalization.”
― Barry Lopez, EMBRACE FEARLESSLY THE BURNING WORLD: Essays

“Where is forgiveness? How far is it, and how long must I wallk until I reach there?”
― Belinda Huijuan Tang, A Map for the Missing

“Desde entonces y desde mucho antes me habita un sentido del peligro que no tiene asidero, como si los días fueran amenazas más o menos mortales.”
― Daniela Alcívar Bellolio, Siberia

“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“We don't need more definitions of reading. We need to use the definitions we already have with greater generosity.”
― Matthew Rubery, Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences

“the criminal enterprise called america is nothing but a self perpetuating white supremacy machine".”
― Michael Harriot, Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

“I already knew that this would be an afternoon to toss into my dustbin of forgettable encounters. To bury in my cemetery of stray and useless males.”
― Shumona Sinha, Down with the Poor!

“each time we disregard our profession, each time that we give up our attitude of understanding and adopt an attitude of punishment, we are mistaken”
― Frantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom