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Ben Hathaway
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"Deep in, what to say. Uniquely chaotic. 6 different people are writing this surely. Hectic but glimmers of shape are emerging" — Apr 29, 2026 10:28AM
"Deep in, what to say. Uniquely chaotic. 6 different people are writing this surely. Hectic but glimmers of shape are emerging" — Apr 29, 2026 10:28AM
was in midlife, at that juncture in time when things come to completion, when slowly and steadily life’s increasing abundance starts to stagnate, on the cusp of its beginning to wane, to tail off into quite as slow a decline.
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
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