Cata Winitzky
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“Prejudice and ethnic strife feed off abstraction.”
― Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
― Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
“We give those we love nicknames, because love requires a word that belongs to us alone.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“It makes no sense, and is a form of twisted narcissism, to imagine that our era has any kind of monopoly on idiocy and disaster.”
― What is Culture For?
― What is Culture For?
“Furthermore, what fundamentally distinguishes adulthood from childhood is that the adult has access to a great many more sources of hope than the child.”
― On Confidence
― On Confidence
“She packed everything into the shopping bags with the urgent efficiency of someone building a sand castle at sundown, as the tide comes in. Like a dream you know will end. If I move fast enough, I won't wake the gods.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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