Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper,” Orwell recalled, “but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which
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“If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now.”
― Ripe
― Ripe
“I have known sadness my entire life. I recognized the message: I would never have anything, not in a real way. The best I could do was the discount version.”
― Ripe
― Ripe
“Here are the facts: I am thirty-three, almost a year into a job in Silicon Valley, waiting for the truth of my life to crack open and reveal itself.”
― Ripe
― Ripe
“Doesn't it overwhelm you sometimes -- To be alive? Don't you sometimes feel like at any moment you could be torn away from yourself? From your life?”
― Ripe
― Ripe
“My mind can make love out of anything, even the smallest of shards.”
― Ripe
― Ripe
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