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"Sometimes it was as simple as a description of a meal that she knew Leonard liked to eat - fried eggs left alone in the pan long enough to turn brown and crispy at the edges - or the mention of the Kinks. They were all tiny little parts of him, preserved forever, molecules that had rearranged themselves into words on a page, but Alice could see them for what they were, which was her father."

“A memorial is like a joyless wedding”

“We will get the vote sooner or later, but that will not be the end of it. The fight will go on, and it cannot rely solely on women prepared to starve themselves.”

“A vulgar word, well placed and said with just enough vigour, can express far more that its polite equivalent.”

“Homophobia is a by-product of misogyny.”

“They had seen more of the world than I had - but not more of humanity itself.”

“Making a charge according to the law of those you indict is a dangerous business.”

“James had to respect anyone drunk enough to successfully ignore a banjo.”

“Misfortune, which should teach us to be decent to one another, makes brutes of us instead. That, at least, has been my experience.”

“Misfortune, which should teach us to be decent to one another, makes brutes of us instead. That, at least, has been my experience.”

“The world wanted so hard to be poetic, and really it was only stupid.”

“…fireworks are a symptom of a broader collective selfishness among so many people.”

“The term had vanished: it takes only two generations, no time in real time, to acquire strong teeth and large hands and feet and a long backbone. Only aversions and fears, the stuff of racial memory, are handed down intact.”

“In a French education veneration was withheld from anyone except the dead and defeated, ranging from General Montcalm expiring at his last battle to a large galaxy of maimed and crippled saints.”

“Americans then were accustomed to gratitude from foreigners but did not demand it; they quite innocently could not imagine any country fit to live in except their own. If I could not recognize it, too bad for me.”

“…. Corporate liability is our biggest evidence against the existence of the paranormal.”

“The past need not be so all-encompassing that it renders us incapable of making egg salad.”

“There is no explaining this simple truth about life: you will forget much of it.”

“Oh, good. He made me scrambled eggs. And he gave Ron cocaine. What a champ. I’ll get back to him. I’ll leave you to your murdered spies.”

“…the experience of love is not what the other person is-it’s how you experience yourself in the presence of the other” - Esther Perel

A 2018 report found that..."over the previous ten years, US taxpayers had directed at least forty million dollars to Confederate monuments, including statues, homes, museums, and cemeteries, as well as Confederate heritage groups."

Of the people who visit Monticello, only about a fifth take the Slavery at Monticello tour.

“oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America”

“He could continue to love her and it would be none of her business.”

“While history is most accurately documented while it is in living memory- the sasha - civic monuments are often products of zamani, and they are, for Loewen, ideologically loaded…”

“If we want to truly be free of the past, we must first start by destroying our ancestral homes.”

“Because you’re my wife!” he shouted. “If you’re running a con, I’ll *always* back you up!”

the funny thing about a picture is that while it knows everything that’s happened up until the moment it was taken, it knows absotively nothing about what will happen next. And yet, once the picture has been framed and hung on the wall, what you see when you look at it closely are all the things that were *about* to happen. All the un-things. The things that were unanticipated. And unintended. And unreversible.”

"The best way to tell whether leave is stigmatized is whether men take it."

“America has a way of dancing with its own delusion” - Jasmine Mans