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“Cars don't inhibit space, they pass through it.

But they require that vast amounts of space be held available for that purpose at all times.

All that emptiness. But pedestrians can never cross it.

Dividing one side of a street from the other like a paradoxical quantum problem.

A space that is always temporarily occupied.”
― Woodrow Phoenix, Crash Course: If You Want To Get Away With Murder Buy a Car

“So it’s lucky for me that literary analysis is not about proof, only persuasion. In our cynical world, where suspicion is a necessity, insisting that something is true is not nearly as powerful as suggesting that something might be true.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“Ken noticed that I never really went out. More important, he noticed that I hoped to be noticed for this. I’d never touched alcohol, but it was mostly because I was a snob, not a straight-edge ideologue. I couldn’t imagine letting down my inhibitions around people I’d been silently judging the whole time.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True

“Our cities and suburbs have been shaped by the needs of cars in a way that makes their effects impossible to escape. Like the creepy feeling of an empty parking lot.”
― Woodrow Phoenix, Crash Course: If You Want To Get Away With Murder Buy a Car