Jacque Ni

“Depressed enough to wonder if Hemingway's real achievement in the early great novels was that of a travel writer who taught a provincial American audience what dishes to order, what drinks to prefer and how to deal with the European servant class.”
― E. L. Doctorow

“Anyway, he continues, what I really missed in the lockdowns was buying coffee. Sipping a flat white. If my identity is so fragile it depends on a flat white to keep it together, I can’t see the point of those years reading difficult theory and philosophy. Capitalism sold a flat white to me as if it were a cup of freedom.”
― Deborah Levy

“The cliché that when women are liberated men will be liberated too shamelessly slides over the raw reality of male domination — as if this were an arrangement in fact arranged by nobody, which suits nobody, which works to nobody’s advantage. In fact, the very opposite is true. The domination of men over women is to the advantage of men; the liberation of women will be at the expense of male privilege. Perhaps afterwards, in some happy sense, men will be liberated too — liberated from the tiresome obligation to be ‘masculine.’ But allowing oppressors to lay down their psychological burdens is quite another, secondary sense of liberation. The first priority is to liberate the oppressed. Never before in history have the claims of oppressed and oppressors turned out to be, on inspection, quite harmonious. It will not be true this time either.”
― Susan Sontag

“My point is that there is nothing tragic in me knowing that the best days of my life are behind me.”
― Graham Norton, Frankie