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Sadie had willed herself to be great: art doesn’t typically get made by happy people.

“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”

The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.

Maybe the worst part is, I don’t trust myself anymore. I‘m not sure my instincts are good

She did not regret having dated Abe, or that it had ended… Long relationships might be richer, but relatively brief, relatively uncomplicated encounters with interesting people could be lovely as well. Every person you knew, every person you loved even, did not have to consume you for the time to have been worthwhile.

2/2 was in its place. She liked solitude and the thoughts of her own interesting and creative mind. She liked to be comfortable. She liked hotel rooms, thick towels, cashmere sweaters, silk dresses, oxfords, brunch, fine stationery, overpriced conditioner, bouquets of gerbera, hats, postage stamps, art monographs, …PBS documentaries, …candles and yoga… She was an avid reader… Dov often said she was bourgeois

She hated being drunk, though she did enjoy smoking a joint every now and then. She liked playing games, seeing a foreign movie, a good meal. She liked going to bed early and waking up early. She liked working. She liked that she was good at her work, and she felt proud of the fact she was well paid for it. She felt pleasure at orderly things - a perfectly efficient section of code, a closet where every item 1/2

The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people, with only white European references in it … A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world…

He was quick to laugh, warm and energetic, verging in goofy

.., she found them [shooters] disgusting, immoral, and the disease of an immature society