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“Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time liberates me from my anxieties and guilt feelings, and it strips me of all ambitions, leaving room for a different sort of existence. A happy, idiotic existence, the kind that doesn't try to make the most of time but is satisfied with merely finding the most enjoyable way to spend it.”
― Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years

tags: flights, flying, happiness, hobbies, time, wasting-time

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“A year and an instant are equivalent in a monotonous life.”
― Hernan Diaz, In the Distance

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“We have become a civilization based on work—not even “productive work” but work as an end and meaning in itself.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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“every time you succeed in looking normal in an area where you’re not, something inside you deadens.”
― Leopoldine Core, When Watched

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“Positive thinking, after all, is an all-American coping mechanism, practically a national pastime. Author James Rorty noted this during the Great Depression, when he traveled America talking with people forced to seek work on the road. In his 1936 book, Where Life Is Better, he was dismayed that so many of his interview subjects seemed so unshakably cheerful. “I encountered nothing in 15,000 miles of travel that disgusted and appalled me so much as this American addiction to make-believe,” he wrote.”
― Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

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