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I’ve never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.
“This big ol' world and we only get to go through it once. The saddest thing there is, you ask me.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“The first place you live alone, away from your family, he said, is the first place you become a person, the first place you become yourself.”
― Severance
― Severance
“Leisure, the problem with the modern condition was the dearth of leisure. And finally, it took a force of nature to interrupt our routines. We just wanted to hit the reset button. We just wanted to feel flush with time to do things of no quantifiable value, our hopeful side pursuits like writing or drawing or something, something other than what we did for money.”
― Severance
― Severance
“we do not have to conform to the way our life has been written for us, especially by those who are less imaginative than ourselves.”
― Real Estate: A Living Autobiography
― Real Estate: A Living Autobiography
“To live in a city is to live the life that it was built for, to adapt to its schedule and rhythms, to move within the transit layout made for you during the morning and evening rush, winding through the crowds of fellow commuters. To live in a city is to consume its offerings. To eat at its restaurants. To drink at its bars. To shop at its stores. To pay its sales taxes. To give a dollar to its homeless.
To live in a city is to take part in and to propagate its impossible systems. To wake up. To go to work in the morning. It is also to take pleasure in those systems because, otherwise, who could repeat the same routines, year in, year out?”
― Severance
To live in a city is to take part in and to propagate its impossible systems. To wake up. To go to work in the morning. It is also to take pleasure in those systems because, otherwise, who could repeat the same routines, year in, year out?”
― Severance
Judy’s 2025 Year in Books
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