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Boring Asian Female

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May 22, 2026 07:56PM

“Art creates a certain familiarity with loneliness. And possibly with pain. Physical, mental, it doesn’t really matter. It’s all a catalyst. I don’t like to admit that because it’s depressing, but in truth pain is the stone that art sharpens itself on time after time.”
― Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love

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“Weren’t chains ashamed of their prisoners? But”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

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“It was a time when even the guilty displayed a rare innocence. In”
― Jack Ketchum, The Girl Next Door

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“As for sickness: are we not almost tempted to ask whether we could get along without it?’—and”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

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“Do you think the lobsters in the tank try to help the other lobsters? Is that why they pile up like that? Or is it just for company, because they know they’re all doomed? Better”
― Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

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