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““When a philosopher wants high ceilings, he goes outside'. He doesn't buy an oversize house that requires massive amounts of dwindling resources to heat in the winter””

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Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.

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“It dawned on him—as it hadn’t before; he was dense, he was slow—that his parents were five hundred miles away. They could make him…

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For many years I didn't have health insurance.

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“Though his classmates supposedly hailed form "all fifty states, Guam, and twenty-two foreign lands," as President Affenlight said in his convocation address, they all…

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A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to…

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“Ella was nineteen," Pella interrupted to say. She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men…

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“Neither had said so, but she could tell. Unless she was just paranoid, living in her head again, but you always lived in your…

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