89 Quotes by Olivia Sudjic about Sympathy
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The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York.
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Email is the scourge of our age,' said Silvia. 'Email and cancer.
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No order, no pattern, just chaos. Lots of little universes separated by invisible screens . . .
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I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.
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I know I only want him,' she said between sobs, the syllables all wrong, 'because he doesn't want me. How is that even possible?''It's normal to want what we can't have,' I said soothingly. 'No, I mean how can he not want me?
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We had, I felt, bared small pieces of our symmetrical souls to each other, fast, as if playing one of those breathless card games, and I had pretended to be as moved as I had been the first time I uncovered it all myself, back in East Hampton.
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I had never been tempted to take drugs of any kind and especially not mind-altering ones, but when Mizuko introduced me to Provigil, which she described as mind-enhancing, I took two.
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I no longer felt I could try to belong with these people.
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Maybe, as Mizuko said, we won't even really die, just carry on in the feedback loop we are stuck in. Instead of connecting with new things, widening our worlds, algorithms have shrunk it to a narrow chamber with mirrored walls.
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