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Ostrich Ostrich by Matt Greene
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“Hope is not the thing with feathers. Hope is an anchor. What keeps you from floating away. Despair is weightless.”
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“This is the lesson: that sometimes something ugly is just something beautiful that I do not yet fully understand.”
Matt Greene, Ostrich
“Bungee Jump is to Suicide as General Anaesthetic is to Lethal Injection. You only know the difference on the way back up.”
Matt Greene, Ostrich
“I can tell my parents are unhappy by the way they smile at waiters. In that small act of ingratiation I can see the custody battle to come.”
Matt Greene, Ostrich
“Loving someone means being prepared to do anything to protect them. Even if the only thing you can protect them from is the truth.”
Matt Greene, Ostrich
“Simon Nagel is an Alkaline Jew and his grandfather was in a concentration camp (I forget which one. It’s definitely not Auschwitz but it would be one of the other top answers in Family Fortunes if they ever did that round).”
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“Having people talk down to you is the absolute worst part about being a kid.”
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“which means sacrificing some of my”
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“I can swear in sixty-seven different languages. But I can apologize in only three, which means I could get beat up in sixty-four other countries.”
Matt Greene, Ostrich