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Book cover for The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
In recovery, I found a community that resisted what I’d always been told about stories—that they had to be unique—suggesting instead that a story was most useful when it wasn’t unique at all, when it understood itself as something that had ...more
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Anthony Marra
“Turning I would to I did is the grammar of growing up.”
Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno

Viet Thanh Nguyen
“I could live without television, but not without books.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

John Muir
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
John Muir

Robin Wall Kimmerer
“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

David George Haskell
“But, to love nature and to hate humanity is illogical. Humanity is part of the whole. To truly love the world is also to love human ingenuity and playfulness. Nature does not need to be cleansed of human artifacts to be beautiful or coherent. Yes, we should be less greedy, untidy, wasteful, and shortsighted. But let us not turn responsibility into self-hatred. Our biggest failing is, after all, lack of compassion for the world. Including ourselves.”
David George Haskell

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