grumpiness often grumpiness perfectionists hold anything less total vi — Rebecca Solnit, Hope Dark

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Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be de- struction.

Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark

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