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you can change an entire timeline just by sending a risky text or talking to a stranger. you need to be playing with the fabric of reality
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“all my friends and I talk about is
getting rid of our phones—
a dystopian dream
dominating dinner conversation,
our phones on the middle
of the table
like candles
like altars
like tiny gods
we are trying not to worship […]
i’m tired and
my window to the world
has no curtains”
» all my friends and i talk about is getting rid of our phones by quirine brouwer
getting rid of our phones—
a dystopian dream
dominating dinner conversation,
our phones on the middle
of the table
like candles
like altars
like tiny gods
we are trying not to worship […]
i’m tired and
my window to the world
has no curtains”
» all my friends and i talk about is getting rid of our phones by quirine brouwer
I perceive value, I confer value, I create value. I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make ‘lists.’ The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest).
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Everyone is Gambling and No One is Happy
Doris Lessing on reading:
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that
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