"Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power, probably the stars manipulating our cellular magnets. We think we have all this agency, but do we? Do we really? Can you choose to be brave when you were born a coward? Can we be deprogrammed from the brainwashing that we grew up in? I think we can, but I think we need a lot of help."

-- Ottessa Moshfegh

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“She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.”
“The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.”
“California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth and bounty from the investment and hard work of those more noble now resting in our cemeteries-and squandered that gift within a generation.”
“I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.”

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“Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "use it well, use it wisely." We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.”
“There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.”
“I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.”
“To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.”

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