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Aphorisms. By Sarah Manguso. Three hundred of them.
Read a few at a time.
Still.
Weak.
Doesn't apply to me.
Weak.
Irrelevant.
And then, suddenly, brilliant.
Maybe just me.
Here were two I liked very much:
“The greatest commitments are to experiences with no known end points: friendship, marriage, parenthood, one's own life.”
“Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, ‘By the grace of this behavior, this individual has found it possible to continue.'”