Jay
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“There's more than two to a story -- the doers, the done-tos, and the ones who interpret who's who.”
― Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
― Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
“I am not a slow learner
I am a quick forgetter
such erasing makes one voracious
if you teach me something beautiful
I will name it quickly before it floats away”
― Calling a Wolf a Wolf
I am a quick forgetter
such erasing makes one voracious
if you teach me something beautiful
I will name it quickly before it floats away”
― Calling a Wolf a Wolf
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.”
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine act of insurrection.”
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
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