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"When an artist dies young there is always talk of the paintings unpainted, the books unwritten, which points to some imaginary storehouse of undone things and not to the imagination itself, the far richer treasure, lost ... A permanent loss of possibility, so that what is left is only ever better than nothing, but the loss is limitless (90)."

"Minor feelings are also the emotions we are accused of when we decide to be difficult—in other words, when we decide to be honest...Our feelings are overreactions because our lived experiences of structural inequity are not commensurate with their deluded reality (57)."