Gerardo Torres Jr. English Teacher.Southern California. Since '93. Asexual. Twitter/SC/IG: grimandhapless
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“Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.”
— Voltaire, Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
— 1984, George Orwell (b. 25 June 1903)
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“Eat too much, work too much, buy too much, read too little, think even less, and die in poverty and insecurity. No, thank you. Don’t you see that’s how Americans take over the world? Not just through their army and their CIA and their World Bank, but through this infectious disease called the American Dream?”
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed
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i try to be chill but my brain writes essays about everything
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“Demanding yet denying the human condition makes for an explosive contradiction. And explode it does, as you and I know. … This is the age of the boomerang, the third stage of violence: it flies right back at us, it strikes us and, once again, we have no idea what hit us.”
— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
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Virginia Woolf, from her novel titled "The Waves," originally published in 1931
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