Tamara

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Kad se zarati – bježi. Sačuvati život je nulti prioritet. Ništa nije važnije od toga. Ne slušaj nikoga ko govori drugačije. Život je samo jedan. Država i nacija su konstrukti jedne vrlo teritorijalne vrste majmuna i nisu ništa drugo nego sinonim za veći čopor kojeg vodi mala grupa majmuna, spremnih za novac uraditi doslovno sve. Zastava je komad platna. Himne su skup tonova i riječi – ne daji im dublji značaj. Iza svega stoje bogati koji izrabljuju siromašne. Patriotizam je za ograničene. Cijeli svijet je tvoj. Imaš pravo na njega. Istraži ga. Od putovanja ne postoji bolje iskorišteno vrijeme. Okruži se ljudima koji cijene život.
Religija je kult smrti – najmorbidnija stvar koju je čovjek izmislio, postoji samo zbog novca. Oni koji je vode ne znaju ništa ni o životu, a kamoli o smrti.”
― Feđa Štukan, BLANK: Slavic Edition

“Finally, as I’ve emphasized, there is the level of conscious public policy. A Soviet official issuing a planning document, or an American politician calling for job creation, might not be entirely aware of the likely effects of their action. Still, once a situation is created, even as an unintended side effect, politicians can be expected to size up the larger political implications of that situation when they make up their minds what—if anything—to do about it. Does this mean that members of the political class might actually collude in the maintenance of useless employment? If that seems a daring claim, even conspiracy talk, consider the following quote, from an interview with then US president Barack Obama about some of the reasons why he bucked the preferences of the electorate and insisted on maintaining a private, for-profit health insurance system in America: “I don’t think in ideological terms. I never have,” Obama said, continuing on the health care theme. “Everybody who supports single-payer health care says, ‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.’ That represents one million, two million, three million jobs [filled by] people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?”9 I would encourage the reader to reflect on this passage because it might be considered a smoking gun. What is the president saying here? He acknowledges that millions of jobs in medical insurance companies like Kaiser or Blue Cross are unnecessary. He even acknowledges that a socialized health system would be more efficient than the current market-based system, since it would reduce unnecessary paperwork and reduplication of effort by dozens of competing private firms. But he’s also saying it would be undesirable for that very reason. One motive, he insists, for maintaining the existing market-based system is precisely its inefficiency, since it is better to maintain those millions of basically useless office jobs than to cast about trying to find something else for the paper pushers to do.10 So here is the most powerful man in the world at the time publicly reflecting on his signature legislative achievement—and he is insisting that a major factor in the form that legislature took is the preservation of bullshit jobs.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory