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"I give up! It's become a cure for insomnia, so I'll shelve it for that. If nothing else, It's peaked my interest in Ms. Baker's psychopathology and resilience, but that's about it." — Apr 18, 2015 05:04AM
"I give up! It's become a cure for insomnia, so I'll shelve it for that. If nothing else, It's peaked my interest in Ms. Baker's psychopathology and resilience, but that's about it." — Apr 18, 2015 05:04AM
“whenever people ask me what I’d most like to change about the white working class, I say, “The feeling that our choices don’t matter.”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“Today people look at me, at my job and my Ivy League credentials, and assume that I’m some sort of genius, that only a truly extraordinary person could have made it to where I am today. With all due respect to those people, I think that theory is a load of bullshit. Whatever”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.”
― The War of Art
― The War of Art
“Our large group left an awful mess...I couldn't imagine leaving it all for some poor guy to clean up, so I stayed behind. Of a dozen classmates, only one person helped me: my buddy Jamil...I told Jamil that we were probably the only people in the school who'd ever had to clean up someone else's mess.”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“Psychologists call it “learned helplessness” when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life. From Middletown’s world of small expectations to the constant chaos of our home, life had taught me that I had no control. Mamaw and Papaw had saved me from succumbing entirely to that notion, and the Marine Corps broke new ground. If I had learned helplessness at home, the Marines were teaching learned willfulness. The”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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