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Ten Birds That Changed the World

by Stephen Moss

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Casey’s Quotes

“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: aloneness, loneliness

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“Lose Faith. Pray anyway. Persist. We are made to persist, to complete the whole tour. That's how we find out who we are.”
― Tobias Wolff, In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War

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“She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.”
― zadie smith

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“all monsters were misunderstood.”
― Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

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“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology

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