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“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don’t we all secretly know this? It’s a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“The rest of the time, I think, what if the polar ice caps keep melting?What if medical care keeps getting more expensive, and social security runs out, and housing prices keep rising while minimum wage doesn’t and what if they resent me for bringing them into all of this?’…’And there are things they wish they could say to me, or hear from me, but I don’t remember who I am, let alone who they are. What if they have to care for me, for years, after I’ve stopped calling them by their nicknames or telling them I love them.’ - Big Beautiful Life”
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