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“...I had nothing to do but survive the feeling that some pain is for no reason at all. It became clearer than ever that life is not a series of choices. So often the experiences that define us are the ones that we didn't pick. Cancer. Betrayal. Miscarriage. Job loss. Mental illness. A novel coronavirus.”
― No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
― No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
“Everybody pretends that you only die once. But that’s not true. You can die to a thousand possible futures in the course of a single, stupid life.”
― No Cure for Being Human:
― No Cure for Being Human:
“People say carpe diem. I mean, yes, unless you need a nap.”
― No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
― No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
“It never occurred to me that every life must be constantly reinvented by adventures and private jokes, and that it might, suddenly, end.”
― No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
― No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
“You'd think that being on planes 150 days a year would free up lots of time for writing, but instead it freed up time for listening to Reinhold Niebuhr audiobooks, watching leftist YouTube videos, and going through every single episode of Star Trek, from the original series through Discovery.”
― A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
― A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
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