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He was tired. I know that now. He was tired in a way that made him seem absent, slow, hauling up some viscous thought he couldn’t quite identify without putting everything else on hold for a moment. My mother and I waited for him.
“I like to think that what I do is masculine... when I hold a little baby and kiss it, that's the masculine part of me holding that little baby. When I have tears because I'm scared or because I'm full of joy, they're all masculine. There's not a feminine thing about them. - Marvin Allen in Manhood.”
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“But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me. I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.”
― This is How You Lose the Time War
― This is How You Lose the Time War
“So I go. I travel farther and faster and harder than most, and I read, and I write, and I love cities. To be alone in a crowd, apart and belonging, to have distance between what I see and what I am.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“It was wonderful what one could accomplish when one threw everything away”
― Unnatural Magic
― Unnatural Magic
“I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.”
― Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
― Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
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