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“How long does it take to know anyone? Five minutes, and done. Nothing can move you off a first impression. That person in your life's passenger seat? Always a hitchhiker, to be dropped off just down the road.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

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“The Spanish economic system is like a game of musical chairs, in which there are only half as many seats as there are performers.”
― Gerald Brenan, The Face of Spain

tags: economic-system, economics, spain

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“we make a grave error when we try to separate individual well-being from the health of the whole.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

tags: indigenous-knowledge, indigenous-literature, indigenous-wisdom, plants

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“When I’m stressed, it feels like my brain has turned to porridge and it’s coming out of my ears. The drugs for my bipolar never really stopped that. Cold water does.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

tags: mental-health, wintering

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“That is the fastest way to ruin a woman's reputation, after all - to imply that she has not adequately threaded the needle that is being sexually satisfying without ever appearing to desire sexual satisfaction.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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