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“I think of Barthes again. A writer is someone who plays with the body of his mother, he says after the death of his own mother, in order to glorify it, to embellish it.

...I change, embellish, and preserve you all at once.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“It's a beautiful country depending on were you look. It's a beautiful country, depending on who you are.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“the Chinese proverb: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
― Nick Kolenda, Methods of Persuasion: How to Use Psychology to Influence Human Behavior

“Let’s not name it. Once you name something, you have to define it: say what it is and isn’t. Not to mention maintenance. All the relationships with names – parent, sister, husband, lover – come with maintenance. All that effort keeping it to what it’s supposed to be. Shouldn’t we allow ourselves at least one unnamed, undefined close relationship in our lives? A free-standing, wild-card arrangement. How about it, Joseph? How about you just try to make me happy, and I’ll try and do the same for you?”
― Ronan Hession, Panenka