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“This whole country,” says my grandmother evenly, “supports a culture of ignorance and anti-intellectualism which posits that not understanding a phenomenon is just as valid as understanding one, and frankly I’m sick of it.”

— Katie Coyle Vivian Apple at the End of the World (2013)

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I’m starting to understand how little purchase the truth actually affords us in this world.

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I wonder if this is what bravery is: adrenaline plus love plus absolute stupidity.

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