“The Soul Toupee is that thing about ourselves we are most deeply embarrassed by and like to think we have cunningly concealed from the world, but which is, in fact, pitifully obvious to everybody who knows us.”
― We Learn Nothing
― We Learn Nothing
“But then anytime you join in a mass movement you’re going to find yourself standing alongside idiots. One reason people go to mass rallies is to become stupider and surer of themselves than they are when they’re alone.”
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
“What I could relate to was the common fear that you are secretly so uniquely screwed-up that there is no way anyone would like you if they really knew you.”
― We Learn Nothing
― We Learn Nothing
“Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it.”
― We Learn Nothing
― We Learn Nothing
“What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.”
― We Learn Nothing
― We Learn Nothing
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