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“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
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“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― Poems, 1923-1954
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― Poems, 1923-1954
“We need individual stories. Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, “casualties may rise to a million.” With individual stories, the statistics become people—but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“The great thing about refusing to feel feelings is that, once you’ve denied them, you don’t have to take responsibility for them. Your feelings will be someone else’s problem – your mother’s problem, your girlfriend’s problem, your wife’s problem. If it has to come out at all, let it come out as anger. You’re allowed to be angry. It’s boyish and man-like to be angry.”
― How Not To Be a Boy
― How Not To Be a Boy
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