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She reached over and jabbed Little Ash in the shoulder with her finger. He opened one bright eye, seeming not asleep at all, as indeed he hadn’t been, and glared at her. “Make sure no one steals my belongings,” she said. “I’m going for a ...more
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Gabrielle Zevin
“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Peter Attia
“Another, related issue is that longevity itself, and healthspan in particular, doesn’t really fit into the business model of our current healthcare system. There are few insurance reimbursement codes for most of the largely preventive interventions that I believe are necessary to extend lifespan and healthspan. Health insurance companies won’t pay a doctor very much to tell a patient to change the way he eats, or to monitor his blood glucose levels in order to help prevent him from developing type 2 diabetes. Yet insurance will pay for this same patient’s (very expensive) insulin after he has been diagnosed. Similarly, there’s no billing code for putting a patient on a comprehensive exercise program designed to maintain her muscle mass and sense of balance while building her resistance to injury. But if she falls and breaks her hip, then her surgery and physical therapy will be covered. Nearly all the money flows to treatment rather than prevention—and when I say “prevention,” I mean prevention of human suffering.”
Peter Attia MD, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

Nora Ephron
“Two of us liked dark meat and two of us liked light meat and together we made a chicken.”
Nora Ephron, Heartburn

Kate Atkinson
“Once, the eye of God watched people, now it was the camera lens.”
Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn

“In a fractured national moment of stress and pain, of inequality and injustice, of ethical strain and Moral Exhaustion, we should go easy on ourselves at moments when we fail in our quest to become better people. But we cannot forget this simple truth: we owe things to each other. They may be small things, or simple things, but they’re there, they’re important, and we can’t ignore them.”
Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

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