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"'All love is, in a sense, homoerotic. Even in the love between a man and a woman, each partner rejoices in finding himself, or herself, in the other.'
Huh?" — 8 hours, 28 min ago
"'All love is, in a sense, homoerotic. Even in the love between a man and a woman, each partner rejoices in finding himself, or herself, in the other.'
Huh?" — 8 hours, 28 min ago
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""Scrambler," James suggested.
Cunningham rolled his tongue around it. "Very well. That scrambler is an absolute miracle of evolutionary engineering. It's also dumb as a stick."" — Feb 01, 2026 12:20PM
""Scrambler," James suggested.
Cunningham rolled his tongue around it. "Very well. That scrambler is an absolute miracle of evolutionary engineering. It's also dumb as a stick."" — Feb 01, 2026 12:20PM
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"It takes courage to keep love at the center when you know just as well as anyone else the real state of things! It's easy to get angry, anyone can do that. It's making good that's the hard part, it's staying hopeful that's the hard part! It's staying in love that's the hard part." — Jan 23, 2026 02:04PM
"It takes courage to keep love at the center when you know just as well as anyone else the real state of things! It's easy to get angry, anyone can do that. It's making good that's the hard part, it's staying hopeful that's the hard part! It's staying in love that's the hard part." — Jan 23, 2026 02:04PM
Thalia coughed again. Some part of that smoke haze came from the burned fabric of Mercy Sphere, but the rest was a sooty suspension of barbecued flesh. The flavour of it was new and ancient at the same time, as if her brain had always been
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“Statistically, you've got a better chance of going to Hollywood and becoming a superstar in the movies than you do of becoming a successful writer.”
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“In our culture we dress up these megachurch pastors in these little suits, with their “education” and their ability to vaguely pontificate, and we think those people best emulate the Jesus of today. Whereas the image of Jesus of today and tomorrow and yesterday is really the Houston Flakes—the broken and the battered, the Peters and the Pauls, the Thomases, the persecuted. Servitude that transcends. Not pastors in castles.”
― Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home
― Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home
“What we need is not so much radical writers as we need radical readers!”
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“The great and terrible thing about humankind is simply this: we will always do what we are capable of.”
― The Mountain in the Sea
― The Mountain in the Sea
“There are thousands of five-letter words in the English dictionary, but it only takes one to win Wordle.”
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