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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Our messiahs are hopeless and modern, they speak only in our sleep.”

51. “Our messiahs are hopeless and modern, they speak only in our sleep.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Everything green just farms us, Cyrus thought. Feeding us oxygen and eating our corpses.”

52. “Everything green just farms us, Cyrus thought. Feeding us oxygen and eating our corpses.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “I want to be worthy of the great terror my existence inspires.”

53. “I want to be worthy of the great terror my existence inspires.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “What was there to complain about? A murdered wife? A sore back? The wrong grade copper? Living happened till it didn’t. There was no choice in it. To say no to a new day would be unthinkable. So each morning you said yes, then stepped into the consequence.”

54. “What was there to complain about? A murdered wife? A sore back? The wrong grade copper? Living happened till it didn’t. There was no choice in it. To say no to a new day would be unthinkable. So each morning you said yes, then stepped into the consequence.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Fear made me work hard, get better. It’s a dirty fuel, but it works. And anger? Anger helped me to leave him. To get my boys away from him as soon as I could. To come thrive in this country that didn’t even believe we were people. To prove it wrong. You can put a saddle on anger, Cyrus.”

55. “Fear made me work hard, get better. It’s a dirty fuel, but it works. And anger? Anger helped me to leave him. To get my boys away from him as soon as I could. To come thrive in this country that didn’t even believe we were people. To prove it wrong. You can put a saddle on anger, Cyrus.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Grace, that dictionary. A place where every thing was attached to a meaning.”

56. “Grace, that dictionary. A place where every thing was attached to a meaning.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “I died, if you’re reading this, in a museum, of a disgusting and unbeautifiable disease. I reject the reduction of my life to this most grotesque artifact.”

57. “I died, if you’re reading this, in a museum, of a disgusting and unbeautifiable disease. I reject the reduction of my life to this most grotesque artifact.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Some days we can see Venus in midafternoon. Then at night, stars separated by billions of miles, light traveling years to die in the back of an eye.”

58. “Some days we can see Venus in midafternoon. Then at night, stars separated by billions of miles, light traveling years to die in the back of an eye.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Only in a culture that privileged infallibility above all else could a man like President Invective rise to power – a man insulated since birth from any sense of accountability, raised in a pristine cocoon of inherited wealth to emerge pristine, dewy, wholly unsullied by those irksome mortal foibles, grief and doubt.”

59. “Only in a culture that privileged infallibility above all else could a man like President Invective rise to power – a man insulated since birth from any sense of accountability, raised in a pristine cocoon of inherited wealth to emerge pristine, dewy, wholly unsullied by those irksome mortal foibles, grief and doubt.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Do you have this organ here?” Cyrus asked her, pointing at the base of his throat. “A doom organ that just pulses all the time? Pulses dread, every day, obstinately? Like it thinks there’s a panther behind the curtain ready to maul you, but there’s no panther and it turns out there’s no curtain either? That’s what I wanted to stop.”

60. “Do you have this organ here?” Cyrus asked her, pointing at the base of his throat. “A doom organ that just pulses all the time? Pulses dread, every day, obstinately? Like it thinks there’s a panther behind the curtain ready to maul you, but there’s no panther and it turns out there’s no curtain either? That’s what I wanted to stop.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Now it’s lonely all over.”

61. “Now it’s lonely all over.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Each giraffe had the long eyelashes of horses, and those same sad eyes, like they knew they weren’t made for this world. Or worse, like they knew they were.”

62. “Each giraffe had the long eyelashes of horses, and those same sad eyes, like they knew they weren’t made for this world. Or worse, like they knew they were.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “When you are ten, shame stitches itself into you like a monogram, broadcasting to the world what holds you, what rules your soul.”

63. “When you are ten, shame stitches itself into you like a monogram, broadcasting to the world what holds you, what rules your soul.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Where does all our effort go? It’s hard not to envy the monsters when you see how good they have it. And how unbothered they are at being monsters.”

64. “Where does all our effort go? It’s hard not to envy the monsters when you see how good they have it. And how unbothered they are at being monsters.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “I am glad I still exist glad for cats and moss and Turkish indigo and yet to be light upon the earth to be steel bent around an endless black to once again be God’s own tuning fork and yet and yet.”

65. “I am glad I still exist glad for cats and moss and Turkish indigo and yet to be light upon the earth to be steel bent around an endless black to once again be God’s own tuning fork and yet and yet.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “So much of his psychic bandwidth was taken up with conflicting thoughts about political prepositions. The morality of almond milk. The ethics of yoga. The politics of sonnets. There was nothing in his life that wasn’t contaminated by what he mostly mindlessly called “late capitalism.” He hated it, like everyone was supposed to. But it was a hate that made nothing happen.”

66. “So much of his psychic bandwidth was taken up with conflicting thoughts about political prepositions. The morality of almond milk. The ethics of yoga. The politics of sonnets. There was nothing in his life that wasn’t contaminated by what he mostly mindlessly called “late capitalism.” He hated it, like everyone was supposed to. But it was a hate that made nothing happen.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “What do you, specifically, want from your unprecedented, never-to-be-repeated existence?”

67. “What do you, specifically, want from your unprecedented, never-to-be-repeated existence?”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Cyrus thought about what an aggressively human leader on earth might look like. One who, instead of defending decades-old obviously wrong positions, said, “Well, of course I changed my mind, I was presented with new information, that’s the definition of critical thinking.” That it seemed impossible to conceive of a political leader making such a statement made Cyrus mad, then sad.”

68. “Cyrus thought about what an aggressively human leader on earth might look like. One who, instead of defending decades-old obviously wrong positions, said, “Well, of course I changed my mind, I was presented with new information, that’s the definition of critical thinking.” That it seemed impossible to conceive of a political leader making such a statement made Cyrus mad, then sad.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “You can put a saddle on anger, Cyrus.”

69. “You can put a saddle on anger, Cyrus.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Grace to live at all – none of us did anything to deserve it. Being born. We spend our lives trying to figure out how to pay back the debt of being. And to whom we might pay it.”

70. “Grace to live at all – none of us did anything to deserve it. Being born. We spend our lives trying to figure out how to pay back the debt of being. And to whom we might pay it.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “All those severe poets talking big about the wages of sin all the time,” Zee added, “but nobody ever brought up the wages of virtue. The toll of trying really really hard to be good in a game that’s totally rigged against goodness.”

71. “All those severe poets talking big about the wages of sin all the time,” Zee added, “but nobody ever brought up the wages of virtue. The toll of trying really really hard to be good in a game that’s totally rigged against goodness.”

— Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Then imagine,” Kareem said, “that a bunch of people who’d never met you, for whom you’re just a myth, began sending you the art you loved, or the art they loved, the art they thought you might love too. An old woman sending a bunch of old standards. Or an eight-year-old boy sending you his prized Monkees record. Imagine how that might contribute to your sense of amongness. To your sense of earth maybe actually being the right place for you.”

72. “Then imagine,” Kareem said, “that a bunch of people who’d never met you, for whom you’re just a myth, began sending you the art you loved, or the art they loved, the art they thought you might love too. An old woman sending a bunch of old standards. Or an eight-year-old boy sending you his prized Monkees record. Imagine how that might contribute to your sense of amongness. To your sense of earth maybe actually being the right place for you.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “That’s when everything became supersaturated. One of those memories you can squeeze like a rag and watch details drip and pool.”

73. “That’s when everything became supersaturated. One of those memories you can squeeze like a rag and watch details drip and pool.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Nobody thinks of now as the future past.”

74. “Nobody thinks of now as the future past.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “How do we move through all this beauty without destroying it?”

75. “How do we move through all this beauty without destroying it?”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “When I say “nations,” I mean “armed marketplaces.” Always.”

76. “When I say “nations,” I mean “armed marketplaces.” Always.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “It’s difficult to be anything at all with the whole world right here for the having.”

77. “It’s difficult to be anything at all with the whole world right here for the having.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “The iron law of sobriety, with apologies to Leo Tolstoy: the stories of addicts are all alike; but each person gets sober their own way. Addiction is an old country song: you lose the dog, lose the truck, lose the high school sweetheart. In recovery you play the song backward, and that’s where things get interesting. Where’d you find the truck? Did the dog remember you? What’d your sweetheart say when they saw you again?”

78. “The iron law of sobriety, with apologies to Leo Tolstoy: the stories of addicts are all alike; but each person gets sober their own way. Addiction is an old country song: you lose the dog, lose the truck, lose the high school sweetheart. In recovery you play the song backward, and that’s where things get interesting. Where’d you find the truck? Did the dog remember you? What’d your sweetheart say when they saw you again?”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “I never really loved being alive. It’s hard to get there without some sort of distance. Hard to describe the shape of a cloud from inside the cloud. Like how I would appreciate gravity more if I’d had trouble floating off in my teens.”

79. “I never really loved being alive. It’s hard to get there without some sort of distance. Hard to describe the shape of a cloud from inside the cloud. Like how I would appreciate gravity more if I’d had trouble floating off in my teens.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “He felt a flash of familiar shame – his whole life had been a steady procession of him passionately loving what other people merely liked, and struggling, mostly failing, to translate to anyone else how and why everything mattered so much.”

80. “He felt a flash of familiar shame – his whole life had been a steady procession of him passionately loving what other people merely liked, and struggling, mostly failing, to translate to anyone else how and why everything mattered so much.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Anger is a kind of fear. And fear saved you. When the world was all kneecaps and coffee tables, fear kept you safe.”

81. “Anger is a kind of fear. And fear saved you. When the world was all kneecaps and coffee tables, fear kept you safe.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Grace doesn’t work that way. It begins with the reward. Goodness never enters the equation.”

82. “Grace doesn’t work that way. It begins with the reward. Goodness never enters the equation.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “One way to live a life is to spend each moment asking for forgiveness for the last.”

83. “One way to live a life is to spend each moment asking for forgiveness for the last.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Maybe it was that Cyrus had done the wrong drugs in the right order, or the right drugs in the wrong order, but when God finally spoke back to him after twenty-seven years of silence, what Cyrus wanted more than anything else was a do-over.”

84. “Maybe it was that Cyrus had done the wrong drugs in the right order, or the right drugs in the wrong order, but when God finally spoke back to him after twenty-seven years of silence, what Cyrus wanted more than anything else was a do-over.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “The story is what comes after.”

85. “The story is what comes after.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Often in my life, in the throes of despair, of my husband’s abuse, I have held the certainty of the damned, that sense of “everything is going to be just this, this misery forever, till I die.” An irrepressible inescapable horror stretching out infinitely in every direction. Tragic, that only terror feels that way.”

86. “Often in my life, in the throes of despair, of my husband’s abuse, I have held the certainty of the damned, that sense of “everything is going to be just this, this misery forever, till I die.” An irrepressible inescapable horror stretching out infinitely in every direction. Tragic, that only terror feels that way.”

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Kaveh Akbar Quote: “Humans are just a long emptiness waiting to be filled.”

87. “Humans are just a long emptiness waiting to be filled.”

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