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“The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.”
― James Baldwin

“So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant