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In the town where I live, I have frequently observed a phenomenon I have come to think of as Samish-Sex Marriage.
George SaundersStichwörter: my-ammendment page-66
You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?"
"That is about the size of it," said the Sergeant.
I felt so sad and so entirely disappointed that tears came into my eyes and a lump of incommunicable poignancy swelled tragically in my throat. I began to feel intensely every fragment of my equal humanity. The life that was bubbling at the end of my fingers was real and nearly painful in intensity and so was the beauty of my warm face and the loose humanity of my limbs and the racy health of my red rich blood. To leave it all without good reason and to smash the little empire into small fragments was a thing too pitiful even to refuse to think about.
Stichwörter: humor humour gallows-humour
A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker.
"Grammy's here!" he shouts.
He puts some MacAttack Mac
Stichwörter: in-persuasion-nation page-156
She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief.
George SaundersStichwörter: bohemians page-184
Pleasures are like poppies spread
You seize the flower its bloom is shed
Or like the snow falls in the river
A moment white, then melts forever
Or like the Borealis race
That flit ere you can point their place
Or like the rainbow's lovely form
Evanshing amidst the storm
Nae man can tether time nor tide
The hour approaches, Tam must ride
The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)
Daniel QuinnStichwörter: progress change failure culture
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Stichwörter: science future progress world society activism change technology protest revolution zeitgeist movement adaption development digital-revolution new-models p2p progression structural-changes zeitgeist-movement
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like Braille. I like to keep my body rolled up away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, or tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.
Jeanette WintersonDo not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life
Bertolt BrechtSuccess is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert SchweitzerStichwörter: inspirational
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