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emcguane.bsky.social @emcguane.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
“Jim, our job is to protect empathy at all costs, and to live groovy lives.” www.vulture.com/article/jim-...
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‘Protect Empathy at All Costs. And Live Groovy Lives.’
Jim Jarmusch on what’s paying his bills these days and the words he lives by.
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emcguane.bsky.social @emcguane.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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emcguane.bsky.social @emcguane.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"As everyone agrees, consciousness arises because of our human need to simulate one another." themorningnews.org/heaven-can-w...
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Heaven Can Wait - The Morning News
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, advice for a lovelorn atheist who wants to know if a Christian could love him back.
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard.” William Zinsser, who died on this day in 2015
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This is what language is: a habitable grief. A turn of speech for the everyday and ordinary abrasion of losses such as this which hurts just enough to be a scar. And heals just enough to be a nation – Eavan Boland, A Habitable Grief
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. Seamus Heaney
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