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“Watching movies was, and still is, an opportunity for my heart to rush irregularly while the cost, for me, remains low.”

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“A woman carries her inner life—lugs it around or holds it in like fumes that both poison and bless her—while nourishing another’s inner life,…

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“There’s strength in observing one’s miniaturization. That you are insignificant and prone to, and God knows, dumb about a lot. Because doesn’t smallness prime us to eventually take up space? For instance, the momentum gained from reading a great book. After after, sitting, sleeping, living in its consequence. A book that makes you feel, finally, latched on.”

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“When those fault lines inside of us quake on account of all that is built up and unkempt between two people in love—on account…

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“The best ideas outrun me. That’s why I write.”

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“Feral rearranging. Letting form ferment. Letting form pass through you.”

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“There's a recording of Nina Simone's "Ain't Got No", where Simone, after listing all the things she doesn't have - a home, shoes, money, class, a country, schooling, children, sisters or brothers - she begins, around the two-minute mark, to list all that she's got, that "nobody", she sings, "can take away". Hair on her head, brains, ears, a nose,…

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“Nook people confuse emotional truth with other varieties of truth. They are a composite of the last person who complimented them and the next…

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“There’s might too in the incomplete. In feeling fractional. A failure to carry out is perhaps no failure at all, but rather a minced…

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“Even then, when time decelerates and the relative importance of our lives, of our hurry, undergoes a sudden, essential audit; even then, our heart…

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“Like the hurt we cause when we've been enduring too much in silence and have started to trust our own fixed claim that everything…

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“Essays that do not concern these directors’ works but are addressed to them—in spirit, tone, wash—because these directors have, over time, caused me to…

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“The genius of the word is that it’s more of an expression than a word.”

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