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““You’re making people nervous. You don’t fit the profile of the neighborhood.” I wanted to tell him that I didn’t fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble.”

— Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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“Sometimes when I’m brushing my teeth, I’ll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I’m not even particularly good at being myself.”

— Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

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Sometimes when I’m brushing my teeth, I’ll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I’m not even particularly good at being myself.

Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (via quotespile)

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“I am at heart a propagandist, a tremendous hater, a tiresome nag, complacently positive that there is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.”

— Gore Vidal, Homage to Daniel Shays

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“But of course they hadn’t done anything. They’d all been born to the right parents, in the right neighborhoods, they went to the right schools, had all the right social instructions, had taken all the right tests. There was simply not a chance they would fail. They’d worked hard but always with the expectation they would get what they wanted – the world had never shown them anything different. Very few of them had earned their places. Everyone admitted how spoiled they were but underneath, there was always the presumption that they deserved it.”

— Philipp Meyer, American Rust

“A seduction of inadequacy “- self-Verification

“ a message that literally has ability to change your fate”

-Kendall St Charles

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An irregular island by Hubble Space Telescope / ESA

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Still from Hubblecast 96: How many galaxies are there? by Hubble Space Telescope / ESA

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“Space is space, life is life, everywhere is the same. But as for me, sustained by the toil of others, lacking civilized vices with which to fill my leisure, I pamper my melancholy and try to find in the vacuousness of the desert a special historical poignancy. Vain, idle, misguided! How fortunate that no one sees me!”

— J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

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“Because we don’t know, do we? Everyone knows… How what happens the way it does? What underlies the anarchy of the train of events, the uncertainties, the mishaps, the disunity, the shocking irregularities that define human affairs? Nobody knows. ‘Everyone knows’ is the invocation of the cliché and the beginning of the banalization of experience, and it’s the solemnity and the sense of authority that people have in voicing the cliché that’s so insufferable. What we know is that, in an unclichéd way, nobody knows anything. You can’t know anything. The things you know you don’t know. Intention? Motive? Consequence? Meaning? All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.”

— Philip Roth, The Human Stain