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Chronocanine Envy:Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life ...more

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Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

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As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fa...more

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I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other...more

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Dimanchophobia:Fear of Sundays, not in a religious sense but rather, a condition that reflects fear of unstructured time. Also known as acalendrical a...more

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I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is larg...more

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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? ...more

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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

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It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media techno...more

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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

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Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later...more

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For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for cha...more

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I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there...more

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She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable in...more

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Okay, I know--my superpower--I'd be able to shoot lightening bolts out from my fingertips--great big knowledge network lightening bolts--and when a pe...more