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It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.

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Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

Danger, Except, Merely, Suffering, Warning
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Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.

Nice, Point, Safe, Thinking, Virtue, Wall

The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

Civilization, Country, Know, Share, Women

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Buy, Make, Mindfulness, Revolution, Spirit

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

Function, Proper, Social, Wall, Walls

Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.

Fists, Hate, Hatred, Like, Older, Person
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