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Disaffected Quotes

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Ottessa Moshfegh
“I'd never learned how to relate to people, much less how to speak up for myself. I preferred to sit and rage quietly.”
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh
“I deplored silence. I deplored stillness. I hated almost everything. I was very unhappy and angry all the time. I tried to control myself, and that only made me more awkward, unhappier, and angrier. I was like Joan of Arc, or Hamlet, but born into the wrong life—the life of a nobody, a waif, invisible. There's no better way to say it: I was not myself back then. I was someone else. I was Eileen.”
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh
“I really despised him, everyone.”
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh
“I doubt she deserved the amount of hatred I directed at her, but I loathed just about everybody back then.”
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

Kristen Henderson
“Editors keep pushing
deadline strain while people sleep
on benches and subway grates;
a welter weight boxer dances
on the platform at 125th Street
station, commuters look unfazed...”
Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking

Stewart Stafford
“Despite its contentious content, 'The Anarchist Cookbook' is such a darkly humorous title for a 19-year-old author to have concocted. Today, it would probably be called 'The Angry Young Man's Portal' or 'IEDs for Dummies.”
Stewart Stafford