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Phil Kim
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“Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.”
― Life After God
― Life After God
“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.”
― Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
― Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
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“The richest relationships are often those that don’t fit neatly into the preconceived slots we have made for the archetypes we imagine would populate our lives—the friend, the lover, the parent, the sibling, the mentor, the muse. We meet people who belong to no single slot, who figure into multiple categories at different times and in different magnitudes. We then must either stretch ourselves to create new slots shaped after these singular relationships, enduring the growing pains of self-expansion, or petrify.”
― Figuring
― Figuring
Phil’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Phil’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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