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Sarah Manguso
“Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us — by taking everything.”
Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

Charles D'Ambrosio
“We are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.”
Charles D'Ambrosio

Helen Oyeyemi
“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.”
Helen Oyeyemi, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

Hannah Arendt
“Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Meghan Daum
“Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally — and sometimes maddeningly — who we are.”
Meghan Daum, The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
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