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“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sherlock Holmes
― Sherlock Holmes

“You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.”
― Conversations with Maya Angelou (Literary Conversations
― Conversations with Maya Angelou (Literary Conversations
“If asked, any third-culture kid will tell you that shape-shifting — rousing one of the many selves stacked within you to best suit the place you’re in — becomes a necessary survival skill, a sort of feigned fitting in that allows you to relate something of yourself to nearly everyone you meet."“When you grow up this way, there is a feeling of being lost, but to be lost is also to be open. It reminds us of our empathy, and of what we share if we were only to try and find it.”
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“Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.”
― Pinball, 1973
― Pinball, 1973
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