From the Quarterly

Pick Me

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The ability to choose is a luxury, a delightful freedom, a tricky exercise for a mammal that probably never imagined it would be asked to decide so much.

This Imaginary Half-Nothing: Time

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There are dawns and noons and nightfalls, diseased interludes and riots and political turns, seasons of tumors and cures and poisons, and along with these the daily need to reproduce oneself as a living person.

Paul Beatty

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I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between giving a shit and giving a fuck. Or not giving a fuck, I guess.