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“Paris … is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers.…”
Julian Green, Paris
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Sally Rooney
“Maybe niceness is the wrong metric, I said. Of course it's really about power, Bobbi agreed. But it's harder to work out who has the power, so instead we rely on 'niceness' as a kind of stand-in. I mean this is an issue in public discourse. We end up asking like, is Israel 'nicer' than Palestine.”
Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“The Claude glass was also known as the ‘black mirror’ and was responsible for a number of minor mishaps. This is where history catches up with us. Our version of the black mirror, carried in the pocket, used by millions to ‘see’ rock concerts, fireworks displays and sunsets, is the smartphone. We look through it to make sure we are catching grainy footage of the wondrous thing we are missing.”
Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human

Sally Rooney
“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.”
Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Running, like literature, like arts, helps you to remember and re-experience some of the impossible strangeness of what it means to be who and what we are, of what it means to be human.”
Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human

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