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JENNY HOLZER, Protect Me From What I Want, 1986

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Night Owls - Paloma Salgado Diaz  , 2023.

Chilean , b. 1990s

Oil on canvas ,

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Tea and books, one in acrylic and one in oils 🫖

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Sun Center, Ingo Swann, 1975

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that one vocab test question haunts me so i drew it

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Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

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okay but saying “i wish i had known you sooner” — like the love in my heart is growing so big and fast for you that i wish i had the opportunity to have you way earlier by my side, because i want to love you longer than i can do now. my love for you reaches my past and makes a place for you.

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Are you ugly on purpose pickles?

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“I can fix him” I couldn’t fix him and I don’t want to. I think he grew prone to biting and scratching in order to get by in a harsh world, and to me his resilience is part of what makes him so beautifully himself. I could be kind to him, though. I could show him gentleness. I could, slowly but surely, in the same way one earns the trust of a skittish stray cat, convince him that my touch will never come accompanied by pain. That, around me, he can allow himself to be soft. To relax. I could be the one he associates with warmth and safety, the one he longs to be held by after a hard day. I could be his home.

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Cameron Awkward-Rich,  from "The Child Formerly Known As _________"

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Donna Tartt, from The Goldfinch (2013)

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Franz Kafka, from an excerpt featured in "Kafka: The Tremendous World I Have Inside my Head,"

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No End, 1985, Krzysztof Kieslowski