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(page 26 of 224)
"“I had, at this time, a sharp apprehension not of what it was like to be old but of what it was like to open the door to the stranger and find that the stranger did indeed have the knife…the improbable had become the probable, the norm: things which happened only to other people could in fact happen to me.”
P. 211 of WTOSIOTL" — Feb 12, 2026 07:55PM
"“I had, at this time, a sharp apprehension not of what it was like to be old but of what it was like to open the door to the stranger and find that the stranger did indeed have the knife…the improbable had become the probable, the norm: things which happened only to other people could in fact happen to me.”
P. 211 of WTOSIOTL" — Feb 12, 2026 07:55PM
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(page 31 of 464)
"-Cortisol ftw
-“Scared animals return home, regardless of whether home is safe or frightening. … Are traumatized people condemned to seek refuge in what is familiar? If so, why, and is it possible to help them become attached to places and activities that are safe and pleasurable?”" — Feb 11, 2025 10:13AM
"-Cortisol ftw
-“Scared animals return home, regardless of whether home is safe or frightening. … Are traumatized people condemned to seek refuge in what is familiar? If so, why, and is it possible to help them become attached to places and activities that are safe and pleasurable?”" — Feb 11, 2025 10:13AM
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(page 188 of 1122)
"“By way of comment I offer only that an attack of vertigo and bases does not now seem to me an inappropriate response to the summer of 1968.”" — Feb 05, 2026 05:52AM
"“By way of comment I offer only that an attack of vertigo and bases does not now seem to me an inappropriate response to the summer of 1968.”" — Feb 05, 2026 05:52AM
“Maybe niceness is the wrong metric, I said. Of course it's really about power, Bobbi agreed. But it's harder to work out who has the power, so instead we rely on 'niceness' as a kind of stand-in. I mean this is an issue in public discourse. We end up asking like, is Israel 'nicer' than Palestine.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen. I applied for jobs and turned up for seminars. Things went on.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“At a certain level of abstraction, anyone could have written the poem, but that didn't feel true either. It seemed as though what he was really saying was: there's something beautiful about the way you think and feel, or the way you experience the world is beautiful in some way.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“You underestimate your own power so you don't have to blame yourself for treating other people badly.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
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