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“We’re supposed to believe that Trump’s support stems from economic stagnation or dislocation. Maybe some of it does. But what Trump offers his followers are not economic remedies — his proposals change daily. What he offers is an attitude, an aura of crude strength and machismo, a boasting disrespec…”

— Robert Kagan, This is how fascism comes to America

“Let’s just go back to the Times‘ story, based on months of investigation and interviews with hundreds of women. I’ll give it to you straight: When Trump was at the New York Military Academy as a teenager, one person who knew him said — and this is corroborated by two other witnesses: 'Donald was ext…”

— Anne Coulter, Ann Coulter: Trump's Problem with Women - Breitbart

“Facebook denies censoring Twitter in Trending topic headlines, or what we call 'descriptions', and the guidelines appear to support this. However, I was specifically trained to avoid using Twitter. Several times curators were penalized for using Twitter in descriptions.”

— Anonymous, I worked on Facebook's Trending team – the most toxic work experience of my life

“Google Home should also get a significant boost from another major I/O announcement: Allo, a messaging service that calls on neural networks not just to understand your words, but reply to them. Home offers the promise of not just understanding commands, but providing conversation.”

— Brian Barrett, Google Home Is Cool, But Catching Amazon's Echo Won't Be Easy

“You are the teeth and the lungs. Biting back and breathing in. Cracked like a frozen moon. The heat lampseeps into the pores. This is your interrogation your fingerprints betray your eyes.”

— The Bled, Red Wedding

“Drinking in the basement just shouting and screaming Listening to our favorite records all while thinking Someday we're gonna be there on stage all singing Remember breaking hearts and getting hearts broken Lying to our parents about what we were smoking Solving all our problems with bottles and wom…”

— Trophy Scars, Assistant. Assistants.

“I used to think our story was one for the books, and I was right. I’m still right. Our story is one for the books because I lived in a world that only the two of us knew. There were spectators, but none of them really knew. If I would be a book in your library, I’d be this: The book you always opene…”

— Cath Pascual, This Is What It Feels Like To Love Someone Who Will Never Really Know You

“This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.”

— Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice

“But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. It's all very sweeping, and not the way we actually are as people.”

— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.”

— Michael Crichton, Disclosure

“I was reminded that Trump was still fundamentally a real estate developer with exactly zero previous campaign experience, who had gotten this far by spending only a fraction of what his opponents had and against the wishes of his party — who was as new to the idea of a Trump candidacy as the rest of…”

— Robert Draper, Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride

“It was the day before the New York primary, and Trump sat in the front of the eight-seater plane. 'I have to think about my speech now,' he told me, and began composing one on the spot. He leafed through various talking points and issue memos, from which he culled a few ideas that he then scribbled…”

— Robert Draper, Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride

“If you want stable love, you have to be stable yourself.You have to know what you want from life even if you’re not there, you have to understand what you want out of a relationship even if you’ve never been in one and you have to be consistent with the love you give to others to receive consistency…”

— Rania Naim, You Have To Be The One You're Looking For Before You Find Them

“The candidate took in the good news with an oddly inert expression. 'Maybe I’ll get beat tomorrow,' he said, for at least the third time that day. Not a single poll had given him cause for worry. But for all his swagger, Trump had an awareness of unseen, deal-breaking contingencies that held his tri…”

— Robert Draper, Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride

“How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his or her own mind, a talent psychologists call metacognition. We know when we are angry; every emotional state comes with self-awareness attached, so t…”

— Jonah Lehrer, How We Decide

“The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally) going crazy. The problem with checking out so thoroughly is that it can leave us feeling dead inside, with little or no ability to feel our feelings in our bod…”

— Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

“I look around with divine precision and gazing free upon the Earth, I see architects and earthquakes, empaths and robots, fictions and near misses, lives changing, children sleeping, beauty brimming.I see us trying on ways of being – so sweet and messy, so worthwhile.”

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“The truth about stories is that that’s all we are.”

— Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior, when the thunder calls to me. Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior, standing on my own two feet.”

— Adele, Turning Tables

“I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause.It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.”

— Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question