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"Like life, Monopoly unfolds very slowly at first, and then becomes distressingly fast at the end. Like life, people find meaning in its outcomes even though the game is rigged toward the rich and privileged, and insofar as it isn't rigged, it's random."

"and then no matter how rich you are, there's an ever-expanding void inside of you that money can never fill"

"He showed me that you could be crazy and still be human, still be valuable, and still be loved."

"hope is the correct response to the strange, often terrifying miracle of consciousness. Hope is not easy or cheap. It is true."

"We imagine other animals as being without consciousness, mindlessly following the leader to they-know-not-where, but in that construction, we sometimes forget that we are also animals"