"I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored."
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"The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need."
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"And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to."
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"It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know."
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"Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen."
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"remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf."
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"All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other."
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"There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them."
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