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Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book’s quotable passages.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
Getting older is a relentless process of paring down. Getting older is an exercise in letting go. Let go of anger: “I’m at the age now where you just—you’ll die.” Let go of fitting in, of going up to Rao’s with important people. Let go of other people’s opinions: “That doesn’t mean you don’t take advice and you don’t discuss and argue, but at a cer... See more
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
It is surprisingly easy to forget what you have witnessed, the horrifying image or the voice speaking the unspeakable, in order to exist in the world we must and we do forget, we live in a state of I know but I do not know.
Katie Kitamura • Intimacies: A Novel
When there’s no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon’s only tool.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Paradox of Doing the Right Thing
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
