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B.J. Novak
“Everyone agreed and then asked what I had in mind. I had no idea what I had in mind. It felt like no one had ever been our age before.”
B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

Tara Westover
“I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money.”
Tara Westover, Educated

Susan Choi
“We almost never know what we know until after we know it.”
Susan Choi, Trust Exercise

Brandon  Taylor
“There will always be good white people who love him and want the best for him but who are more afraid of other white people than of letting him down. It is easier for them to let it happen and to triage the wound later than to introduce an element of the unknown into the situation. No matter how good they are, no matter how loving, they will always be complicit, a danger, a wound waiting to happen. There is no amount of loving that will ever bring Miller closer to him in this respect. There is no amount of desire. There will always remain a small space between them, a space where people like Roman will take root and say ugly, hateful things to him. It’s the place in every white person’s heart where their racism lives and flourishes, not some vast open plain but a small crack, which is all it takes. Wallace presses his tongue flat. “Good white people,” he says.”
Brandon Taylor, Real Life

Elaine Hsieh Chou
“In many ways, poetry serves no purpose. It cannot cure sickness, it cannot end wars, it cannot feed the hungry. And yet, a society without poetry is not a society at all. We need poetry to make sense of ourselves and the world around us. We need poetry to examine, on a microscopic level, beauty and pain and everything in between. We need poetry as much as we need our own humanity.”
Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

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