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“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

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“Because I know that time is time and place is always and only place and what is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place, I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessed faces and renounce the voice because I cannot hope to turn again.”
― T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday

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“My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

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“The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be not happy.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

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“that the notion of privilege as something to which one could “easily cop,” as in “cop to once and be done with,” is ridiculous. Privilege saturates, privilege structures.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

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