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And no one is obliged to learn something from loss. This is a horrible thing we do to the newly stricken, encouraging them to remember the good times while they’re still in the fetal position. Like feeding steak to a baby.
— Jul 12, 2024 12:14PM
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It’s a strange thing, to have someone you love, someone with a lot of opinions, die before a global catastrophe. Nora Ephron died three years before Donald Trump announced his candidacy, and I still think about this. One is relieved for the dead, that they were spared the news, but frustrated to be robbed of their reaction. One fantasizes about being the messenger: You’re never gonna believe it. 🥲
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If you are not revolted by certain things, you have no boundaries. If you have no boundaries, you have no self-knowledge.
If you have no self-knowledge, you have no taste, and if you have no taste, why are you here?
— May 06, 2026 01:40PM
If you have no self-knowledge, you have no taste, and if you have no taste, why are you here?
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Human beings are the only animals that experience denial. All creatures will try to survive under attack, will burrow when under siege or limp through the forest. But they recognize trouble when it hits. Not one fish in the history of fish, having gotten its fins chewed off, needs another fish’s perspective: I don’t know, Tom, that looks pretty bad.
— Feb 04, 2025 10:43PM
