“Now, I demand a love that is stupid and beautiful, like a pilot turning off her engines mid-flight to listen for rain on the wings”
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“I'm not especially easy to fool, but I am a romantic, which I suppose means at the right hour, I'm everybody's fool.”
― There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
― There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
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“It’s called a mondegreen, a misheard lyric, like how the Ramones will sing, I wanna be sedated, & my mom will nod along as she sings, I want a piece of bacon. It’s the way our brains fill in gaps, make sense of things we didn’t
or couldn’t hear, the way my mom said,
he’s gone, & I asked her where?”
― Swallowtail
or couldn’t hear, the way my mom said,
he’s gone, & I asked her where?”
― Swallowtail
“We forget that there is no hope of joy except in human relations. If I summon up those memories that have left with me an enduring savor, if I draw up the balance sheet of the hours in my life that have truly counted, surely I find only those that no wealth could have procured me. True riches cannot be bought.”
― Wind, Sand and Stars
― Wind, Sand and Stars
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