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The first thing I knew in this world was that I was alone and unseen. Then I knew I was not. You are not just my port in the storm, which is what middle-aged women are supposed to be looking for. You are the dark and sparkling sea and the
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“Grief is an impossible meal, so we cut it up into little pieces, dress it in ritual, and take it like a pill.”
― Marriage of a Thousand Lies
― Marriage of a Thousand Lies
“It's important to undermine yourself and create a level of difficulty so the work doesn't come too easily. The more comfortable you get, the more money you earn, the more successful you are, the harder it is to create situations where you have to prove yourself and make yourself not just want it, but need it. The stakes should always feel high.”
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
“Cops never fucked with David Simon while he was filming The Wire, and dudes who rock out at that rock club The Crown sing about drugs and addiction weekly, but Moose can’t do the same? Martin Scorsese can, but Moose can’t? Can you not be an artist if you’ve dealt heroin? If you’re a felon? If you’ve owned guns? So now being black and from the ghetto bars you from artistic expression?”
― The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America
― The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America
“I have been lonely in my life but never when drinking strong coffee, wearing my fleecy slippers, and standing in my own kitchen.”
― White Houses
― White Houses
“Saturday is for fears and secrets and confessions and remembrances; Sunday is for logistics, the daily mapmaking that keeps their life together inching along.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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