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Marjane Satrapi
“I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.”
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

Howard Jacobson
“If that made him heavy company sometimes, so be it. Who decreed that life was to be one long rowdy masquerade (punctuated with those little pets of melancholy indulged by a crowd who made a religion of their feelings)?”
Howard Jacobson, Shylock Is My Name

Howard Jacobson
“That's how vilification works. The victim ingests the views of his tormentor. If that's how I look, that's what I must be.”
Howard Jacobson, Shylock Is My Name

Howard Jacobson
“Because art, for all its adventuresomeness, is also capable of being the most recidivist of human activities, forever falling back in reaction to what was itself a reaction to something else.”
Howard Jacobson
tags: art

Justin Halpern
“On Packing My Own Lunch

You have to pack a sandwich. It can't just be cookies and bullshit....No, I said if you packed it yourself, you could pack it how you want it, not pack it like a moron.”
Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

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