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"Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be." — Sep 15, 2016 02:05PM
"Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be." — Sep 15, 2016 02:05PM
What appeared to be economic growth was activity fueled by people borrowing money they probably couldn’t afford to repay: by their rough count, worldwide debts, public and private, had more than doubled since 2002, from $84 trillion to $195
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“You do it because the doing of it is the thing. The doing is the thing. The talking and worrying and thinking is not the thing.”
― Yes Please
― Yes Please
“I gather sentences round, quotations, the literary equivalent of a cheerleading squad. Except that analogy’s screwy—cheerleaders cheer. I put up placards that make me feel bad.”
― Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
― Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
“But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.”
― Redshirts
― Redshirts
“I don't need you to be mad that it happened. I need you to be mad that it just like... happens.”
― Such a Fun Age
― Such a Fun Age
“The middle of a novel is a state of mind. Strange things happen in it. Time collapses.”
― Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
― Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
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