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“This is another way in which he is an admirable person. If he notices something is broken, he will try to fix it. He won’t just think about how unbearable it is that things keep breaking, that you can never fucking outrun entropy.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

tags: breaking-things, brokenness, entropy

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“Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

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#3

“Paulie smiled slightly at this, as profanity had always felt to him like a seal of understanding, a shortcut to extreme feeling that people used when they needed it most.”
― Kathleen Alcott

tags: feelings, profanity

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#4

“While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?”
― Ander Monson

tags: books, college, learning, life, textbooks

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#5

“Everyone has at least one talent. It's just that some talents are pointless.”
― Andrea Kneeland, How to Pose for Hustler

tags: pointlessness, talent, talents

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#6

“Mimi and I don’t speak a word to each other. Not out of anger or punishment, but we’ve learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it.”
― Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family

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#7

“Most people, they agreed, could either love or be loved, for these two were like rubbing your stomach and patting your head—nearly impossible to accomplish simultaneously.”
― Lori Ostlund, After the Parade

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#8

“Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.”
― Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692

tags: answers, questions, salem, witches

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#9

“When you do for other people (Fran’s daddy said once upon a time when he was drunk, before he got religion) things that they could do for themselves, but they pay you to do it instead, you both will get used to it.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

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#10

“Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

tags: jealousy

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#11

“The last thing we wanted to do was offend you."
"The last thing you wanted was for me to take offense.”
― Sloane Crosley, The Clasp

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#12

“People who just had sex had an annoying habit of assuming everyone around them had just had sex. Which was also, coincidentally, what people who were not having sex assumed.”
― Sloane Crosley, The Clasp

tags: sex

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#13

“I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel.”
― Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

tags: magic, understanding

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#14

“People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn't, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been.”
― Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest

tags: abandonment, disappearing, disappointment, reminders

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#15

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

tags: opportunity

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#16

“If you construct a room in paint, you haunt it. Your life rests in every stroke. So paint only the rooms that you can bear to occupy forever. Or paint the stars instead.”
― Benjamin Wood, The Ecliptic

tags: art, creativity, haunt, painting, rooms, stars

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#17

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”
― Andy Warhol

tags: art, creativity, warhol

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#18

“If you ever find happiness,
cut off its legs.”
― B. Diehl, Zeller's Alley

tags: poetry

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#19

“Two things have always ruptured up and through hegemony: art and bodies.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan

tags: art, bodies, hegemony

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#20

“If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.

But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.”
― Tom Stoppard

tags: change, interview, playwriting, theater

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#21

“If you consider a woman less pure after you’ve touched her
maybe you should take a looks at your hands.”
― Kaija Sabbah

tags: education, feminism, sexism, sexuality, women

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#22

“More disturbing than hurt is love when it's wrong.”
― Ali Land, Good Me, Bad Me

tags: abuse, hurt, love, wrong

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#23

“Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.”
― Matthew Gallaway, #gods

tags: art, benevolent, finances, god, sublime

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#24

“Maybe the point of life (and youth, once it was over), was to elevate yourself, through time and reflection, into something worthy of contemplation (even if you were the only one doing the contemplating).”
― Matthew Gallaway, #gods

tags: contemplation, contemplation-of-life, life, meaning-of-life, reflection, time

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#25

“I fell back from him then, I lay next to him thinking, as I had had cause to think before, of how helpless desire is outside its little theater of heat, how ridiculous it becomes the moment it isn't welcomed, even if that welcome is contrived.”
― Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You

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#26

“Love may be a grand thing, but goddamn if it doesn't take up more than its fair share of space inside a man.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

tags: henry-montague, love, percy-newton

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#27

“Don't make a wall of glass between your play and the people watching. Don't forget they were once children, who enjoyed being read to, or sung to sleep.”
― Sarah Ruhl, 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater

tags: audiences, children, fourth-wall, playwriting, theatre

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#28

“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: boys, rain, summer

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#29

“I remembered a friend of mine dying from AIDS, and while he was visiting his family on the coast for the last time, he was seated in the grass during a picnic to which dozens of family members were invited. He looked up from his fried chicken and said, "I just want to die with a big dick in my mouth.”
― David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

tags: gay, humour

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#30

“Hell is a place on earth. Heaven is a place in your head.”
― David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

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