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Everywhere Isaac looked, people wanted to go back. Back to a time when people like him either didn’t exist—or kept their damn mouths shut. Back to a time when there were plenty of confirmed bachelors, but nobody was gay. Back to a time when
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At one time, probably during the early Obama era, I naively thought most of the country had moved past this racist, homophobic mindset. I still believe the majority of the American public has moved on, in a “live and let live” sort of way. It’s just that the loudest, most aggrieved among us now feel permission to voice and act on their worst impulses. And they get attention in social media and on the news for this.
“He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.”
― The Amateur Marriage
― The Amateur Marriage
“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
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“Falling apart is curling up into a fetal position and staying in bed for a week. What you were doing is having the emotional response an individual has to the loss of someone they love. We cry to give voice to our pain.”
― One True Thing
― One True Thing
“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
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