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In Paterson, I-80 chops the Watchung lava. Walking the cut from end to end, Deffeyes picked up some peripheral shale—Triassic red shale. He put it in his mouth and chewed it. “If it’s gritty it’s a silt bed, and if it’s creamy it’s a
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“Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.”
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“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“90% of U.S. mass shootings are committed by white people aged 14-56. For some reason I've never ONCE heard a white person called a terrorist.”
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“There is a concept in psychology called ‘moral injury,’ notion, distinct from the idea of trauma, that relates to the ways in which ex-soldiers make sense of the socially transgressive things they have done during wartime. Price felt a sharp sense of moral injury: she believed that she had been robbed of any ethical justification for her own conduct.”
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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