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It was like when your car spins out on an icy road, and your senses turn up so high that time seems to slow because you notice everything, and you just sit in your spinning car waiting, waiting, to see if you’re going to die. He couldn’t
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“A stranger is just an arsehole I haven't yet met.”
― How To Be Dead
― How To Be Dead
“We seem to have replaced doing anything with saying something, in a space where the word ‘conversation’ has achieved an obscenely inflated importance as a substitute for action.”
― What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
― What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
“The same forces that have a disregard for black life, for the lives of the indigenous, for the marginalized, for the lives of women, are the same forces who disregard the life of the Earth itself; individuals who see themselves set apart from other people, who imagine themselves disconnected from the natural world over which they short-sightedly assume mastery, who see the destruction and degradation of life as a fair exchange for the tightly policed boundaries of ethno-nationalist identities, the pursuit of wealth or the achievement of billionaire status.”
― What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
― What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
“Millions of us feel deeply that change is long overdue unless we are to succumb to death.”
― What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
― What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
“I began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed both nothing and everything. Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn’t really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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