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Jeet Thayil
“You've got to face facts and the fact is life is a joke, a fucking bad joke, or, no, a bad fucking joke. There's no point taking it seriously because whatever happens, and I mean whatever the fuck, the punch line is the same: you go out horizontally. You see the point? No fucking point.”
Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis
tags: life

Cecile Pin
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal.”
Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

Ocean Vuong
“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Caleb Azumah Nelson
“I’ve only ever known myself in song, between notes, in that place where language won’t suffice but the drums might, might speak for us, might speak for what is on our hearts.”
Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

Malcolm  Pryce
“The train slowed down at the approach to shrewsbury station and glided between the eleventh-century abbey and the stadium of shrewsbury town football club. Two sacred arenas where men chanted and waited for a miracle that never came.”
Malcolm Pryce, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being In Aberystwyth

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