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“I don’t like knowing people in the context of things. "Oh, that’s the person I work out with. That’s the person I’m in a book club with. That’s the person I did that show with." Because once the context ends, so does the friendship”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“Communication, we tell ourselves, is not just what makes us special. It is the nearest thing we have to a universal remedy for personal and social ills.”
― Nicholas Carr, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“It is not, by any means, that I am more of a prude than is becoming, my lady; nor, that I take upon me to be so innocent, as not to know, that young gentlemen of fortune will, if it be only for fashion's sake, have such things as kept mistresses (begging pardon for mentioning such trash).”
― Maria Edgeworth, Belinda