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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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“There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!”
― Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters

tags: work

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“This is my soul and the world unwinding, this is my heart in the still winter air. Finally whispering the same two words over and over: “Keep walking. Keep walking. Keep walking.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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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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“It's like the corporate world's full of ghosts … maybe a fairer way of putting this would be to say that adulthood's full of ghosts … these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed ... They've done what's expected of them. They want to do something different but it's impossible now, there's a mortgage, kids, whatever, they're trapped … High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

tags: adulthood, ghosts

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