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"THIS GIRL! I love her but how dense can you be???
“Rip had kissed me. Me.
Was it… was it for comfort? Did friends do that? Kiss each other sometimes to make the other person feel better?
Yeah. Yeah, they did, I told myself as I heard him exhale. That’s what I was going to keep telling myself. He hadn’t slipped in any tongue, that wouldn’t have been friendly. [...] “You still want to be my friend though?”" — Aug 20, 2025 01:53PM
"THIS GIRL! I love her but how dense can you be???
“Rip had kissed me. Me.
Was it… was it for comfort? Did friends do that? Kiss each other sometimes to make the other person feel better?
Yeah. Yeah, they did, I told myself as I heard him exhale. That’s what I was going to keep telling myself. He hadn’t slipped in any tongue, that wouldn’t have been friendly. [...] “You still want to be my friend though?”" — Aug 20, 2025 01:53PM
“If the supply of workers exceeds the demand for labour, wages fall and some workers starve. Wages therefore tend to the lowest possible level compatible with keeping an adequate supply of workers alive.
Marx draws another important point from the classical economists. Those who employ the workers - the capitalists - build up their wealth through the labour of their workers. They become wealthy by keeping for themselves a certain amount of the value their workers produce. Capital is nothing else but accumulated labour. The worker's labour increases the employer's capital. This increased capital is used to build bigger factories and buy more machines. This increases the division of labour. This puts more self-employed workers out of business. They must then sell their labour on the market. This intensifies the competition among workers trying to get work, and lowers wages.”
― Marx: A Very Short Introduction
Marx draws another important point from the classical economists. Those who employ the workers - the capitalists - build up their wealth through the labour of their workers. They become wealthy by keeping for themselves a certain amount of the value their workers produce. Capital is nothing else but accumulated labour. The worker's labour increases the employer's capital. This increased capital is used to build bigger factories and buy more machines. This increases the division of labour. This puts more self-employed workers out of business. They must then sell their labour on the market. This intensifies the competition among workers trying to get work, and lowers wages.”
― Marx: A Very Short Introduction
“They were as ready as ever to burst out laughing and I began to understand that it wasn't out of stupidity or hopelessness, but as a means of survival.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“Mama is sad because Grandpa died,” my four-year-old daughter says to her cousin. “Died.” She knows the word “died.” She pulls tissues out of a box and hands them to me, and her emotional alertness moves, surprises, impresses me. A few days later, she asks, “When will Grandpa wake up again?”
I weep and weep and wish that her understanding of the world were real. That grief was not about the utter impossibility of return.”
― Notes on Grief
I weep and weep and wish that her understanding of the world were real. That grief was not about the utter impossibility of return.”
― Notes on Grief
“Never' has come to say. 'Never' feels so unfairly punitive. For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer there.”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
“But in the beauty of perfect proportions no soul exists; the soul asserts itself in certain bodily imperfections of form, which, when understood, become irresistible charms.”
― A Drama In Muslin
― A Drama In Muslin
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