Brittney
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“There was one face that looked like another face before it and then another face that looked like the face before it. This went all the way back until the beginning of time. Who knew what this face would look like a thousand years from now. Me?”
― Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place
― Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place
“That, paradoxically, narrowing her concerns had made her more capable of love and generosity and empathy and, yes, even peace and justice. It was the difference between loving something out of duty—because the movement required it of you—and loving something you actually loved. Love—real, genuine, unasked-for love—made room for more of itself, it turned out. Love, when freely given, duplicates and multiplies.”
― The Nix
― The Nix
“Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“And come to think of it, maybe this is the most important lesson the school could teach them about the American workplace: how to sit calmly at your desk and surf the internet and not go insane.”
― The Nix
― The Nix
“It had always seemed to him a very plush kind of problem, a privilege, really, to consider whether life was meaningful or not.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
The Year of Reading Proust
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Summer of Jest
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