theStorykeeper

“Animals were predictable, and therefore easy to be safe around.... If we all followed the rules, no one would get hurt. It made so much more sense than in America, where no one followed the rules, and whether I got bullied or teased had nothing to do with my own behavior.”
― Keena Roberts, Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs

“The real world isn't black or white. There's not even grey. Reality is multicolored.”
― David Sax, The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

“The question of why one player won a game rather than another is different from the question of how hard the game is to play.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“It usually turned out that the people who claim they're looking to change their lives are really looking for a way to justify making the same mistakes over and over.”
― Stephen McCauley, True Enough