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“People lived with a lot of awful things, some of them very comfortably”
― The Gloaming
― The Gloaming
“Love confirms who a person is, and that they are worth loving. Politics do not confirm who a person is.”
― Creation Lake
― Creation Lake
“Nature doesn’t bother me. What bothers me in nature is the possibility of people.”
― Creation Lake
― Creation Lake
“whether people cultivate an exterior meant to signal their politics, or they cultivate, instead, a strait-laced appearance that does not signal their politics, their self-presentation is deliberate. It is meant to reinforce who they are (who they consider themselves to be).”
― Creation Lake
― Creation Lake
“Detail established truth. The color of the dog. Without detail, truth was a metaphysically unstable idea: too general, too big; cause and effect going all the way back to first dates, to ancestors surviving winter storms, to dinosaurs, to organisms in a puddle.”
― The Gloaming
― The Gloaming
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