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Kai Moore-Austen
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The Outrage
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My dad once told me that they came for the libraries first. “Not smashing and burning, not in the beginning,” he said, “but claiming no one used them and closing them down, one by one. You see, Gabe, when they take away the places that help
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“So build yourself as beautiful as you want your world to be. Wrap yourself in light then give yourself away with your heart, your brush, your march, your art, your poetry, your play. And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against; show them what you’re for.”
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“whatever you are feeling right now, there is a mathematical certainty that someone is feeling that exact thing. This is not to say you aren’t special. This is to say thank god you aren’t special.”
― Our Numbered Days
― Our Numbered Days
“I saw the future, I did, and in it I was alive.”
― The Future
― The Future
“I am just carbon and bad timing”
― Our Numbered Days
― Our Numbered Days
“I think a lot about killing myself, not like a point on a map but rather like a glowing exit sign at a show that’s never been quite bad enough to make me want to leave. See, when I’m up I don’t kill myself because, holy shit, there’s so much left to do. When I’m down I don’t kill myself because then the sadness would be over, and the sadness is my old paint under the new. The sadness is the house fire or the broken shoulder: I’d still be me without it but I’d be so boring.”
― The Future
― The Future
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