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“And certainly there are many speakers whom I’d like to see do more trembling, more unknowing, more apologizing.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“Men can be feminists, but I don't know if straight guys can avoid being creeps.”
― Tony Tulathimutte, Private Citizens

“And learning any fact, he was annoyed not to have known it already, because whenever anything happened, the conversation around it had already trended and backlashed and been reexamined and swalloed and shat and reswallowed and reshat in a thousand places onlines, until all thinking felt redundant”
― Tony Tulathimutte, Private Citizens

“Everyone had very uncreased necks, which meant no prolonged inclining of the head, which meant no reading. Linda's own neck looked like a finger, but she reassured herself that the creases were like tree rings marking her substance.”
― Tony Tulathimutte, Private Citizens