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“For irony—exploiting gaps between what’s said and what’s meant, between how things try to appear and how they really are—is the time-honored way artists seek to illuminate and explode hypocrisy.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

“What kind of man does not give up his time, his many pleasures, but hands them over without a sound. What kind of man bends to hold them in their suffering, in their questions, in their garbled turns of phrase. What kind of man admits his failures, turns over his heavy stones, stands at the feet of grief and wanting does not turn away. What kind of man becomes a father. A lasting place. A steady ship inside a tireless storm.”
― Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

“Time seems to slow, memories of places collide with what I see now, like I'm living in the past and the future all at once.”
― Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

“It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all.”
― Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation