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On parents feeling proud and winning a Pulitzer - “when do you think you stop caring?”…..
“Not then. Because then suddenly they are incredibly proud. But they’re proud of the accomplishment, not of the work. So you feel like you have to keep accomplishing, instead of just creating. It reaffirms the idea that the value in what you do is how people react to it, and not in the making of it.”
— Jan 09, 2026 11:41AM
“Not then. Because then suddenly they are incredibly proud. But they’re proud of the accomplishment, not of the work. So you feel like you have to keep accomplishing, instead of just creating. It reaffirms the idea that the value in what you do is how people react to it, and not in the making of it.”
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What a twist!!! I mean I knew SOMETHING was coming but this is good!
— Jan 11, 2026 01:26PM
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I don’t understand why ALL of Emily Henry’s FMC behave in this manner: Have the same fallacies. I quiet truly could not tell them apart
— Jan 09, 2026 12:45PM
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“ there might be three versions of any story, but does that mean that her version is any less true. maybe truth is less about a compromise of conflicting viewpoints and more about an integration of them.”
— Jan 09, 2026 11:30AM
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“Why couldn’t it have been you? Why couldn’t you be who you were supposed to be?” - oh the real fallacy of unequited love
“He was the love of her life and he let the world make him too small for her.”
“What should he have done.”
“For the one you love. Anything. You unmake the world and build a new one. You do anything to give them what they need.”
— Jan 09, 2026 11:26AM
“He was the love of her life and he let the world make him too small for her.”
“What should he have done.”
“For the one you love. Anything. You unmake the world and build a new one. You do anything to give them what they need.”
