"But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done."

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Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.68, Random House

Adam Johnson

#People Quotes #Done Quotes

“She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.”
“Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.”
“The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessnessâ€”domains soaked in anxiety.”
“I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.”
“I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.”

Source : Dwight Macdonald (1974). “Discriminations: Essays & Afterthoughts”
“I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.”
“I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.”
“I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?”

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