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“I think I have given up on having one character arc or being able to make sense of it all as a unity. I'm trying to get lost in whatever work presents itself on a given day, and if it doesn't add up to anything coherent, that's fine.”

-Sasha Chapin

What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying." (Byung-Chal Han, Vita Contemplativa)

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To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying, and they comprehend what we say, it’s because

Ron Stevens • Text

Rest in Peace David Foster Wallace, you would have loved Barbie. We swim in a wretched sea of meaningless mush, and when you have to trudge through nothing but slop all day, every day, it gets harder and harder to not numb out. I really cannot emphasize it enough: there’s so much and it just keeps coming. There’s lots to do. There’s lots to buy. Th... See more

Catherine Shannon • Everyone Is Numbing Out

Start by starting.

Slowly is the fastest way to get where you want to be

Listening is a neglected social skill. But I know that an even more neglected social skill is candor.

Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know

“I don’t think we talk enough about the in betweens. The part when you know you want to change something but don’t yet know how, don’t yet feel strong enough, don’t yet know what your first step is. So to the people in the in betweens, don’t be disheartened, don’t give up. You’ve done the hard part. Now just take it one small step at a time.
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I believe that we desperately need to be experimenting and developing methods of communication that aren’t beholden to either the advertising industry or the brittle egos of billionaires.

Mandy Brown • Coming Home

björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw