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""You have to take it for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person's breath against your neck. That's the only courageous thing a person can do."" — May 08, 2026 01:31PM
""You have to take it for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person's breath against your neck. That's the only courageous thing a person can do."" — May 08, 2026 01:31PM
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
― I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
― I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.”
― The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
― The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
“Feminism is itself a challenge. Feminism is a challenge to the way things are in the world. It is by definition an oppositional movement, because it’s trying to accomplish something. I’ve never felt like feminism was a consciousness raising effort in isolation. Everything about feminism is about getting something in the world to get better for women, and to get the world to be less stupid on gender bifurcation terms. I think that feminism over time gets better, or it gets better and worse and better and worse at achieving the goals that it’s trying to achieve, but the overall mission stays the same. I guess I don’t think of it as feminism versus anti-feminism; I sort of think of it as feminism versus the world. I don’t think of it as a competition; there’s no winning. In feminism, you’re always trying to make stuff better. It’s opposition to which you cannot attribute a tally.”
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