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I can’t promise you that you won’t be tired, he says. But please know this. There’s a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired, Andre. That’s where you’re going to know yourself. On the other side of tired.
“Lola—a girl so outwardly preoccupied with wokeness; who only read overhyped memoirs written by women under thirty having feeble epiphanies about themselves; who had “she/her” written in all her social media bios despite very clearly never being in danger of being misgendered—”
― Ghosts
― Ghosts
“The freedom to choose, in other words, means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.”
― Appetites: Why Women Want
― Appetites: Why Women Want
“Most dangerously of all, such thinking assumes that if you cannot win, then you must not continue to play.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“It was a glorious time for pop culture, the decade of Nirvana and Lollapalooza and Clueless and My So-Called Life and Sassy and Pulp Fiction and Greg Maddux and Garth Brooks and Green Day and Drew and Dre and Snoop and Wayne’s World. It was the decade Johnny Depp got his Winona Forever tattoo, the decade Beavis and Butthead got butt-shaped tattoos on their butts.”
― Love is a Mix Tape
― Love is a Mix Tape
“The notion of following your heart’s desire, of going wherever you chose, did not exist here, and I did not see any way to let them know what it felt like, especially since, after so little time in their system, I had lost my own sense of freedom.”
― Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
― Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
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