Men don’t have to pay attention the way we do. Men die because they make mistakes. Women? We die because we’re female.
“There's only one things more contagious than enthusiasm, and that's the lack of it”
― The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, And Responsiveness in the Classroom
― The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, And Responsiveness in the Classroom
“The default assumption tends to be that it is politically important to designate everyone as beautiful, that it is a meaningful project to make sure that everyone can become, and feel, increasingly beautiful. We have hardly tried to imagine what it might look like if our culture could do the opposite—de-escalate the situation, make beauty matter less.”
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“Writing is either a way to shed my self-delusions or a way to develop them. A well-practiced, conclusive narrative is usually a dubious one:”
― Trick Mirror
― Trick Mirror
“nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.”
― The Likeness
― The Likeness
“When I was a child, luxury was fur coats, evening dresses, and villas by the sea. Later on, I thought it meant leading the life of an intellectual. Now I feel that it is also being able to live out a passion for a man or a woman.”
― Simple Passion
― Simple Passion
Ask Gary Shteyngart - Friday, March 7th!
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