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“It sounds cruel, but survivors laugh and play, and even in the most horrible situations—perhaps especially in those situations—they continue to laugh and play. To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such, and as Siebert and others have pointed out, play puts a person in touch with his environment, while laughter makes the feeling of being threatened manageable.”
― Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

“I am not a man because of my biology; I am a man because I am. I am, I am, I am.”
― Ezra Woodger, To Be A Trans Man: Our Stories of Transition, Acceptance and Joy

“When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp right along without knowing it. He keeps near the tune, but is not the tune. When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he does not say it.”
― Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper�s Literary Offenses