Sonja
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We have tended to exercise an imaginative bias against flatlands: moor, tundra, heath, prairie, bog and steppe. For Daniel Defoe, travelling in 1725, the moors above Chatsworth were abominable: ‘a waste and a howling wilderness’. Reactions
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“these moments you wonder what you are teaching their kids, and your own. Then you realize you are teaching them the truth about America.”
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
“This country is founded on some very noble ideals but also some very big lies. One is that everyone has a fair chance at success. Another is that rich people have to be smart and hardworking or else they would´t be rich. Another is that if you´re not rich, don´t worry about it, because rich people aren´t really happy. I am the white male living proof that all of that is garbage. The vast degree to which my mental health improved once I had the smallest measure of economic security immediately unmasked this shameful fiction to me. Money cannot buy happiness, but it buys the conditions for happiness: time, occasional freedom from constantly worry, a moment of breath to plan for the future, and the ability to be generous.”
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
“Everyone is doing what they have to do, and everyone is doing the best they can. And soon you will be going home.”
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
“Each of us has the plague within him; no one, no one on earth is free from it. And i know, too, that we must keep endless watch on ourselves lest in a careless moment we breath in someone's face and fasten the infection on him. What's natural is the microbe. All the rest – health, integrity, purity (if you like) – is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
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