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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
— Lorraine Hansberry, Letter to The Ladder (1957)

1w ago

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. Yet another person's words can reach through the walls — which is why literature matters.

2w ago

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3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever

Everything of beauty and substance that we make — every poem, every painting, every friendship — is an outstretched hand reaching out from one loneliness to another, reaching into the mute mouth of forever for the vowels of a common language to howl our requiem for the evanescent now.

2mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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