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“Lucky are them, most will say, whose futures align with the promise of their inheritances. But I'd say they're the most cursed. Most blessed maybe are the battered who, in a rare encounter or accident, discover a different future, which, upon followin, not only returns them to the self they forgot but reveals how the cost of their trials has made them into someone they never could've imagined.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

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“I don’t like knowing people in the context of things. "Oh, that’s the person I work out with. That’s the person I’m in a book club with. That’s the person I did that show with." Because once the context ends, so does the friendship”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

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“what's so dangerous about nostalgia is that it makes the paramount present suddenly negotiable.”
― Mark Z Danielewski

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“My first instinct is to laugh, but then I remember that American history is filled with men and women who were as lethal as they were ridiculous.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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“But the fact is that, even as I know and teach the power of writing, I still find myself in disbelief when I see that power at work in the real world. Maybe it is the nature of books. Film, music, the theater—all can be experienced amidst the whooping, clapping, and cheering of the crowd. But books work when no one else is looking, mind-melding the author and audience, forging an imagined world that only the reader can see.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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