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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends'…
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Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could…
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The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions,…
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I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power.…
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Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms…
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When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing…
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Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed…
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There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.
— Noam Chomsky
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