The Quarantine Tapes

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The Quarantine Tapes 082: Roxane Gay Jul 21, 2020

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“I just hope that people sustain this energy and recognize that this is not something that you do just today. This is not something that you do just this week. You should always be reading diverse things, not only in terms of demographics, but in terms of aesthetics and ideology. I hope that we can see that happen.”

The Quarantine 081: Rabih Alameddine Jul 20, 2020

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“I can tell you that the need for intimacy, and some form of companionship, and to be seen and understood is just as powerful as the need to be separate.”

The Quarantine 080: Susan Meiselas Jul 17, 2020

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“I think making a picture is listening and being ready and receiving, in some way, what’s happening around you.”

The Quarantine Tapes 079: Suketu Mehta Jul 16, 2020

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“If we want to stop this pandemic from spreading further, then we have to treat the weakest among us better. That means the migrants, that means providing different health care and housing, whether or not you have papers, because you are already in the country.”

The Quarantine Tapes 078: Derek DelGaudio Jul 15, 2020

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“It’s important to fight for truth, but accepting the responsibility that we are shaping it rather than believing that truth just exists and it’s up to us to find it and talk about it. We need to take on the responsibility that we are shaping it together, collectively.”

The Quarantine Tapes 077: Romila Thapar Jul 14, 2020

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“One of the things I’ve been doing these last three months in self-isolation is that I’ve been trying to answer this question of, 'How do cultures and civilizations articulate dissent?', because I think dissent is absolutely crucial to the health of any society.”

The Quarantine Tapes 076: Admiral James Stavridis Jul 13, 2020

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“I think [this moment] is at once philosophical but also a moment that demands practical action. Such moments are rare. Generally, you see a problem and you charge at it to fix it or you are faced with some kind of existential, emotional kind of crisis. I think this is a moment where it’s both.”

The Quarantine Tapes 075: Etgar Keret Jul 10, 2020

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“I think humor is essential, for me, every day. It’s my way of dealing with anxiety, it’s my way of dealing with depression, and it’s my way of trying to learn my faults and become better.”

The Quarantine Tapes 074: David Harrington Jul 09, 2020

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“For me, the way music works is in very small little granules of time. It might be a chord change, it might be a tambor, it might be a rhythm, but there’s something that strikes an element of what I call “the truth”. I’m not sure I can define it, but I can feel it.”

The Quarantine Tapes 073: Naomi Shihab Nye Jul 08, 2020

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“This situation of separation has so many forms, doesn’t it? Throughout our world, this sense of disconnect. I do think that poetry is a way that we try to connect further somehow. If not with the other side (whatever that side will be), with our own selves, with our own thinking, with other meanings, trying to make connections.”

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