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“No matter how good you are with words, it’s inevitable that meaning is lost between your mind and someone else’s. Trying to communicate is like throwing a cup of water at a thirsty person’s face. It’s better than nothing, sure, and a teaspoon of water might hit their lips, but oh, God, there’s just so much water in the grass.”
― How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows
― How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows
“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
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“A useful analogy for what [Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick] calls 'reparative reading' is to be fundamentally more invested in finding nourishment than identifying poison. This doesn't mean being naïve or undeceived, unaware of crisis or undamaged by oppression. What it does mean is being driven to find or invent something new and sustaining out of inimical environments.”
― Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
― Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
“Kindness, kindness, kindness.
I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.”
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I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.”
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“We people are just like our planetmates. We cannot put an end to nature; we can only pose a threat to ourselves. The notion that we can destroy all life, includng bacteria thriving in the water tanks of nuclear power plants or boiling hot vents, is ludicrous. I hear our nonhuman brethren snickering: "Got along without you before before I met you, gonna get along without you now", they sing about us in harmony. Most of them, the microbes, the whales, the insects, the seed plants, and the birds, are still singing. The tropical forest trees are humming to themselves, waiting for us to finish our arrogant logging so they can get back to their business of growth as usual. And they will continue their cacophonies and harmonies long after we are gone.”
― Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution
― Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution
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