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“I don’t want your advice.”
“Nobody does. It’s a giver’s present. Go through the motions, Adam. (…) Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.”
“Why should I?”
Samuel was looking at the twins. “You’re going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles.”
— May 31, 2026 10:30PM
“Nobody does. It’s a giver’s present. Go through the motions, Adam. (…) Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.”
“Why should I?”
Samuel was looking at the twins. “You’re going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles.”
heloniii
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“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual (…)”
— May 27, 2026 11:34PM
heloniii
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“I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.”
Damn, Steinbeck.
— May 26, 2026 01:45AM
Damn, Steinbeck.