Get lucky
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It’s hard to express how lucky it feels to be an American to someone who’s never lived in fear of someone taking it away from you.
- but if you want to push the boundaries of knowledge, if you want to try something audacious, if you crave to know things for the sake of knowing, if you want to live in your full weirdness, you come to America. Or if you’re little like I was, you do everything in your power to stay.
- I’ve always asked everyone I met impertinent questions, from maintenance workers to MacArthur Geniuses. Often the minute we meet. Once they get used to it, interesting people are usually up to talk about absolutely anything. I truly don’t judge. I enjoy hearing about absolutely everything. I don’t quite understand taboos. I never have.
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I’ve never been ashamed to be curious.
- They’d thought they had vetted me. They had no idea how much an uncensored human can write and think when all he cares about is knowing more.