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“We and the Americans will lead the rest of this century because we are the only nations who have learned to brush the past aside instead of bowing before it. But where they have done so in service of their beloved individualism, we are attempting to do so in the service of the common good.”

what can a 1st impression tell us about some1 we’ve just met for a min 4 that matter what can a 1st impression tell us about any1? By their very nature humans are so capricious, so complex so delightfully contradictory that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration & unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged w them in every possible setting @ every possibly hour

“For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends. We carry them from place to place, often at considerable expense and inconvenience; we dust and polish their surfaces and reprimand children for playing too roughly in their vicinity - all the while, allowing memories to invest them with greater and greater importance.”

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time”

“The last time of anything had the poignancy of death itself.”

“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing,” thought Francine, “something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you’re blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you’re alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.”

“And she doesn’t have to worry about me, either. I don’t need to drink to get drunk. I can get drunk on things like the tulip - and this night.”

“This could be a whole life,” she thought. “You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires.”

“Someday you’ll remember what I said and you’ll thank me for it.” Francis wished adults would stop I guess her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she’d had to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.

“In that case, she, in turn, would torment those found guilty, forgetting her own hurt at being tormented. They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.”

“Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for”

“Why? When I myself do not believe?”
“Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination”

“You can be fifty, sixty, eighty, a hundred years old. The child will be there. It is what makes you feel alive. When you become an adult it doesn’t mean you must banish the child”

“If our names got called, we would work a shift offloading cramp from Asia, and a week later get a paycheck for that single day that was enough to cover a months rent, and out a dent into quarterly tuition, which was even less.”

What the actual fuck, insane that this was the case in the 70s. Our pay never increase with inflation. Houses cost quarter of a million and we don’t get any increase in pay. Sick of it