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The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics. ”
But there are definitely times when I just need to write to clarify my thoughts and put any doubts to bed. ”
I've known Nick Compton a long time. He's a fully-formed cricketer and he's scored lots of runs. ”
Grief is a bit of a journey, and it is evolving all the time but I am very functional. ”
I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order. ”
Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse. ”
I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure abstraction, but the narratives of human lives hold my attention every time. ”
If you look at the language of illness, you can use it to describe race - you could experience race as an illness. You can experience income level, at many different levels, as a form of illness. You can experience age as an illness. I mean, it's all got an illness component. ”
A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us is, finally, inviolable. ”
When you close down your borders, you're helping people build up a lot of hate toward you. That ungenerosity is not only not very attractive, from a moral and social standpoint, but also it's not very effective as a means of defending the country. ”