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Erin Kissane

"Give all your fucks to the living."

Mandy Brown on—well, the renewal of the soul, in a different register, I think—through devotion to the genuinely alive.

"if you give your fucks to the unliving—if you plant those fucks in institutions or systems or platforms or, gods forbid, interest rates—you will run out of fucks. One day you will reach into that bag and your hand will meet nothing but air and you will be bereft."

aworkinglibrary.com/writing/un

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Erin Kissane

(The resonance with Mother Jones' "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living" is only implicit here, but the bells still ring.)

Ethan Marcotte

@kissane big BIG mother jones energy (complimentary) (like it could be anything but complimentary)

Erin Kissane

@beep Ethan I am SO INTO IT I am so into it.

And god, it rings so true for me. The most obliteratingly exhausting work I've done was also super-renewing *even during burnout* and this is a pretty great theory of why.

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