Mira Gonzalez Quotes

#1. I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.

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#2. I often tweet things that I would feel too horrified/embarrassed/ashamed to say to a friend or loved one, even though most of my friends and loved ones read my Twitter account.

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#3. I feel comfortable tweeting things that I would never feel comfortable saying in a real life conversation, or even in other places on the internet.

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#4. I often get asked by people 'Is your Twitter real?' and things of that nature. I'm never sure how to respond to that. My Twitter account is completely 'real' in that everything I tweet is something I have earnestly thought or something that has actually happened to me.

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#5. For reasons that I don't fully understand, Twitter is a place where I don't feel ashamed to say my most shameful thoughts.

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#6. To me, Twitter often feels like shouting things into a two-way mirror that I know has people behind it, maybe even people I know, and they are definitely listening, but mostly remain perfectly silent.

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#7. What I lack in skill and motivation I make up for in delusions of grandeur.

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#8. It hurt us both when i held you from behind
because I couldn't change the weather with my arms

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#9. Everything anyone has ever felt
is a variation of 'sad' or 'happy' or 'angry'
everyone feels the same things over and over again

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#10. If I were two inches tall
I would sit on your shoulder all day
and nurture a relationship with your earlobe
my hands would be too small to effectively touch you
I would create empty space using the tip of my tongue
and feel afraid of every bone in my body
especially my sit bones

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#11. What is the difference between being an independent person
and being a person who is accepting of loneliness

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#12. I think my most shameful thoughts are the things people relate to the most, because everyone has questionable thoughts sometimes, and it's easy to feel incredibly alienated and lonely when you feel like nobody else is having those thoughts too.

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#13. I will sometimes post tweets that are about a specific person or people, in which case I will imagine the people I am tweeting about to be my audience.

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#14. In the space between our bodies
there is a cup holder filled with pennies
a distance which can often take years to cross

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#15. I really like when people do 'stream of consciousness' tweeting, or when people's tweets come across as sort of manic and mostly unedited.

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