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"Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely."

— Lorraine Hansberry

Literature1930–1965

#friendship

"“And how does that make you feel?” he crooned in the comforting tone of a therapist who may or may not actually care."

— Catherynne M. Valente

Literature1979

#friendship

"The privacy thing has gotten totally out of control. I think most people are not aware of who is tracking them, how much they're being tracked and sort of the large amounts of detailed data that are o…"

— Tim Cook

Business1960

#philosophy

"All hegemonies have their limits, and no policies ever achieve just what they intend. But the salient feature of the present is not that the world at large is out of control, but that it has never bee…"

— Perry Anderson

Philosophy1938

#time