“They all spent their lives in plant-filled apartments and cafes with excellent wifi. In the long run it was inevitable they would convince themselves that nothing else existed.”
― Perfection
― Perfection
“... there was something radically inapplicable about this whole code of ready-made honour that is still the small voice, trained to command, of the Englishman all the world.”
― Decline and Fall
― Decline and Fall
“THERE IS NO REAL fight against death because death will always win. But death can be handled well or poorly.”
― Joan Is Okay
― Joan Is Okay
“I can’t explain why I believe that privacy is the mainspring of personhood, that the more you reveal the less there is to reveal. How the only way to pass through a hall of mirrors and know by the end which you is you is to obfuscate.”
― Rejection
― Rejection
“First, there are the people with no particular agenda, who will take their cue from you, who will wait quietly to learn who you are. Then there is the other group, the people who will not wait, but who conjure up a personality for you out of odds and ends of their own: some bits of you, certainly, but mixed liberally with scraps of their own needs and prejudices.”
― I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
― I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
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