Jun

“My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.”
― Marcel Proust

“Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.”
― Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women's Writing

“It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.”
― Marcel Proust

“While in the past people of rank or status were those and only those who took risks, who had the downside for their actions, and heroes were those who did so for the sake of others, today the exact reverse is taking place. We are witnessing the rise of a new class of inverse heroes, that is, bureaucrats, bankers, Davos-attending members of the I.A.N.D. (International Association of Name Droppers), and academics with too much power and no real downside and/or accountability. They game the system while citizens pay the price.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder