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“Fed on a media diet of really bad news, we live in a perpetual state of repressed panic. We are paralyzed by bad knowledge, from which the only escape is playing dumb. Ignorance becomes empowering because it enables people to live. Stupidity becomes proactive, a political statement. Our collective norm.”
― My Year of Meats
― My Year of Meats
“I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.”
― Winnie-the-Pooh
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.”
― Winnie-the-Pooh
“Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.”
― The Faraway Nearby
― The Faraway Nearby
“There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fatal decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal. They become the tangible landscape of memory, the places that made you, and in some way you too become them. They are what you can possess and in the end what possesses you.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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