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“The things you get excited for the fastest are the things that get boring the fastest. Anything that ever meant a damn took a while.”
― Meredith Gran, There Are No Stars in Brooklyn

“A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being; all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct. A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good. That’s the whole crisis. The rot at the root of everything. The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing. That belief corrupts everything, has everyone with any power sitting on their hands.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!