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“I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“A man who has the knowledge but lacks the power clearly to express it is no better off than if he never had any ideas at all.”
― Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

“There is no point in saying anything but the truth because, at the end of the day, you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself.”
― Amy Winehouse

“So much, then, for the fish.”
― Herodotus, The Histories