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- I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want…
- Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.
- Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.
- I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I…
- Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message:…
- How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to…
- Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism…
- Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm…
- It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an…
- He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable…
- Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your…
- THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value…
- He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even his longing for…
- [T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious…
- Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling. However truly you…
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