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
“I rebelled in silent ways, with my thoughts.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“Art can do the opposite of glamorising the unattainable; it can reawaken us to the genuine merit of life as we’re forced to lead it. It is advertising for the things we really need.”
― What is Culture For?
― What is Culture For?
“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
“The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
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