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"Ah, Spotify listening hours, how you betray me... I'll come back to you in a month I guess" — Apr 29, 2026 06:21AM
"Ah, Spotify listening hours, how you betray me... I'll come back to you in a month I guess" — Apr 29, 2026 06:21AM
Seriousness seemed the only mood a plain girl might adopt without exposing herself to the scorn or pity of others.
“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
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“[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.”
― Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
― Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Emma
― Emma
“How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they’re gone?”
― M Train: A Memoir
― M Train: A Memoir
“And then we do it all again, just as our forefathers did before us. It is a farming pattern, fundamentally unchanged from many centuries ago. It has changed in scale (as farms have amalgamated to survive, so there are fewer us of ) but not in its basic content. You could bring a Viking man to stand on our fell with me and he would understand what we were doing and the basic pattern of our farming year. The timing of each task varies depending on the different valleys and farms. Things are driven by the seasons and necessity, but not our will." (p. 32)”
― The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
― The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
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