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“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”
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“There is no good answer to being a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.”
― Trick Mirror
― Trick Mirror
“I’ve been thinking about five intersecting problems: first, how the internet is built to distend our sense of identity; second, how it encourages us to overvalue our opinions; third, how it maximizes our sense of opposition; fourth, how it cheapens our understanding of solidarity; and, finally, how it destroys our sense of scale.”
― Trick Mirror
― Trick Mirror
“all my life I’ve been leaving myself breadcrumbs. It didn’t matter that I didn’t always know what I was walking toward. It was worthwhile, I told myself, just trying to see clearly, even if it took me years to understand what I was trying to see.”
― Trick Mirror
― Trick Mirror
“And here one of the most soul-crushing things about the Trump era reveals itself: to get through it with any psychological stability—to get through it without routinely descending into an emotional abyss—a person’s best strategy is to think mostly of himself, herself. As wealth continues to flow upward, as Americans are increasingly shut out of their own democracy, as political action is constrained into online spectacle, I have felt so many times that the choice of this era is to be destroyed or to morally compromise ourselves in order to be functional—to be wrecked, or to be functional for reasons that contribute to the wreck.”
― Trick Mirror
― Trick Mirror
Allison’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Allison’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,220 books
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157 friends
919 books
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31 friends
738 books
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129 friends
4 books
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93 friends
42 books
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7 friends
26 books
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62 friends
33 books
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23 friends
7 books
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55 friends
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