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“Sometimes chaos is an immense black hole in which one endeavors to fix a fragile point as a center. Sometimes one organizes around that point a calm and stable "pace" (rather than a form): the black hole has become a home. Sometimes one grafts onto that pace a breakaway from the black hole.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Thousand Plateaus

“Language creates boundaries around chaos and gives meaning to pain, to mess, and to confusion. Sentences emerge from the internal wilderness and form a path. And yet words can form a barrier between emotion and experience. Any writer will tell you how baffling is the gap between imagination and exec…”

— Irene Keliher, "When You Can No Longer Talk about It, You Have to Sing" Narrative Magazine

“My work as a sculptor has trained me to write in the same way. When I start a piece I work it from all directions. I jump back and forth from section to section in no particular order. I leave broad ideas and impressions everywhere. I make notations and draw charts. I don’t write in complete sentenc…”

— Annie Weatherwax, Structure: What Writers Can Learn from Visual Artists

“When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no mor…”

— Oprah, What I Know For Sure

“A battle-tested solution based on the most popular server stack for Node.js, Express. We’ve been using it here at Redfin in production for over a year and it serves the three highest traffic pages on the site. We’re serving 1 billion requests a month from our React Server instance; hundreds of reque…”

— Redfin, Announcing React Server

“We have to protect the KKK, but heaven forbid someone type Black Lives Matter.”

— Carol Hood, Azealia Banks' Twitter Ban Reminds Us Freedom Of Speech Is For Whites Only - The Establishment

“React Server ships with seamless server rendering that reduces time to first byte by keeping track of above-the-fold content, and emitting the server-rendered HTML as soon as it is ready, letting the browser continue rendering where the server left off, so that the above-the-fold content is interact…”

— Redfin, Announcing React Server

“It’s fun for the occasional tech demo, but now we know the real reason that Google Glass, and other augmented reality solutions, have failed to catch on. The future they’ve promised us will eventually turn into the same nightmare that surfing the web has become—a sea of intrusive ads and countless a…”

— Andrew Liszewski, This Augmented Reality Future Looks Like a Living Hell

“Whole swaths of the city defy current zoning rules. In Manhattan alone, roughly two out of every five buildings are taller, bulkier, bigger or more crowded than current zoning allows, according to data compiled by Stephen Smith and Sandip Trivedi.”

— Quoctrung Bui, Forty Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today

“Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions.”

— George W. Crane, Psychology Applied

“I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.”

— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“I want you to add to the life I’ve built for myself, not create one for me.”

— Ashley Jones, I Don’t Need You But I Want You

“That's what you do when you want something. You don't look for reasons why it won't work. You look for reasons why it will.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe In Another Life

“When I try to come back to you, the plane descending not through sky, but through the chalky white of a snow cloud, what will be waiting?”

— Gwen Hart, "Losing Ohio," Losing Ohio

“One ventures from home on the thread of a tune. Along sonorous, gestural, motor lines that mark the customary path of a child and graft themselves onto or begin to bud "linesof drift" with different loops, knots, speeds, movements, gestures, and sonorities.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Thousand Plateaus

“Now we are at home. But home does not preexist: it was necessary to draw a circle around that uncertain and fragile center, to organize a limited space. Many, very diverse, components have a part in this, landmarks and marks of all kinds.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Thousand Plateuas

“Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had declared that mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number or men.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"

“Today emoji are used and loved by a lot of people. They’re internationally successful for the same reasons they were successful in Japan in the late 90’s and early 00’s—in addition to being useful shortcuts for nouns for everything from “Partly Sunny” to “Gas Station”, they act as emotional intermed…”

— Colin M. Ford, Colin M. Ford, Emoji: A Lovely History

“There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the st…”

— Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“If they complain about the price, they don’t get the value. A sale is a mutual exchange; your customers don’t buy a widget or a service, your customers pay for value, a desired outcome.”

— Anis Qizilbash, How to handle price objections without coming across as pushy