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"the red theater chapter talking about a rural troupe performing revolutionary operas in their community brought real tears to my eyes and made me want to throw up. i also wanted to say something about how funny mao is but i think that i was putting my own modern ironic lens over him and i wasnt fully willing to grapple with his total straightforward sincerity and that is on me actually" — Sep 30, 2025 07:11PM
"the red theater chapter talking about a rural troupe performing revolutionary operas in their community brought real tears to my eyes and made me want to throw up. i also wanted to say something about how funny mao is but i think that i was putting my own modern ironic lens over him and i wasnt fully willing to grapple with his total straightforward sincerity and that is on me actually" — Sep 30, 2025 07:11PM
“It occurred to me, this whole view of how to operate and how to manage and how to do all that right? Vulnerability. The key thing was, if you really want to do something great, you’re going to have to stare down immense doubt and challenge
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“If she couldn’t love her fourteen-year-old schoolboy, she could at least love cubism.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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