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"You can’t tell someone who wants to be with you always that he should be reasonable and ration himself out a little – if I saw you half as often, I would like you four times as much – no, you can’t say that.”

--Gun-Britt Sundstrom, Engagement

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"In America, propaganda is free. News is behind a paywall."

--Heather Ashley

https://www.threads.com/@theheatherashley

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"Whatever the reason for a memory's erasure the blitheness of youth, the defense mechanism of blocking out pain, the natural erosion of particulars over time it often throbs like a phantom limb, no less potent for the absence of details. Faces and words may fade, but their emotional residue frequently lingers.

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. . . the reality that minds are not so much storage devices as sieves. As her protagonist puts it, 'Forgetfulness is greater than memory.'

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. . . ownership of one's memories is provisional, an unstable cache susceptible to time and circumstance.

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Perhaps recollection always requires a degree of fiction-making, not simply because people are inherently forgetful but because memories are shaped as much by impression and sensibility a mother's face, the hazy sketch of a dark Parisian street as they are by actual events.

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And yet . . . remembering and forgetting are not so much actions as forces that everyone must negotiate. One might try to foster conditions for remembrance take photographs, keep a journal, stash relics but forgetfulness sets its own obscure terms. This need not be distressing. In fact, there is something pleasurable in setting down the burdens of the past."

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Too much past accumulates; it gnaws like a parasite, thriving on the vitality of one's most punishing memories. What a relief, to let some things fade away."

--Rachel Vorona Cote

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/07/girl-1983-linn-ullmann-novel-review/683521/

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Tiles! I want to have a kitchen wall full with different designs

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"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o'clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you've never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride."

Anthony Bourdain.

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“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary. Having that real though limited power to put established institutions into question, imaginative literature has also the responsibility of power. The storyteller is the truthteller.”

–Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind (2004)

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“We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that.”

Jean Cocteau.

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defend joy as a destiny defend it from fire and firefighters from suicides and homicides from vacations and ruts from the obligation to be joyful

A Defense of Joy