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“What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?”
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“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb. He really was there all those years, a flesh-and-blood presence streaming off the wallpaper, digging up the dogwoods, polishing the finials... smelling of sawdust and sweat and designer cologne. But I ached as if he were already gone.”
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“Pretty soon, when you start noticing something that causes you psychic pain, you’ll get excited about it, not afraid. Ooh, another chance to get stronger. You’ll seek out things you’re scared of and intentionally confront them, because it’s an easy way to get the great rewards of self-improvement.”
― Raw Thought: The Weblog of Aaron Swartz
― Raw Thought: The Weblog of Aaron Swartz
“Growing up, you know, I slowly had this process of realizing, that all the things around me that people had told me were just the natural way things were, the way things always would be, weren’t natural at all! They were things that could be changed and they were things that, more importantly, were wrong and *should* change.”
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Flying_one’s 2025 Year in Books
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