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Ease is the disease
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
I often wondered: is it some kind of a trade-off? Do others have to lose so we can win?
Zadie Smith • Swing Time: A Novel
She tended to think of thirty-three as the age of burgeoning wisdom. It was the age at which she had begun, finally, to know herself.
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could also have said that it’s a critique, an embodied critique of the middle-class cult of personal safety. It’s a rejection of the belief that every vulnerability should be protected, and that the central project of our lives is to undo our own precarity. It’s a refusal of a way of life devoted to insurance.
Eula Biss • Having and Being Had
We cannot breathe. This is our mantra in America now.
Terry Tempest Williams • The Pall Of Our Unrest
Each one volunteers to be eaten, so others might be spread far afield.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
sirens,