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Marina Keegan
“I blame the Internet. Its inconsiderate inclusion of everything.Success is transparent and accessible, hanging down where it can tease but not touch us. We talk into these scratchy microphones and take extra photographs but I still feel like there are just SO MANY PEOPLE. Every day, 1,035.6 books are published; sixty-six million people update their status each morning. At night, aimlessly scrolling, I remind myself of elementary school murals. One person can make a difference! But the people asking me what I want to be when I grow up don't want me to make a poster anymore. They want me to fill out forms and hand them rectangular cards that say HELLO THIS IS WHAT I DO.”
Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

Rabih Alameddine
“Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even if for only a moment, a moment before one immures oneself again.”
Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

Malcolm Gladwell
“Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.”
Malcolm Gladwell, 引爆趨勢 : 小改變如何引發大流行 [Yin bao qu shi: xiao gai bian ru he yin fa da liu xing]

Malcolm Gladwell
“We have, in short, somehow become convinced that we need to tackle the whole problem, all at once. But the truth is that we don’t. We only need to find the stickiness Tipping Points,”
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Rabih Alameddine
“We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter.”
Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

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