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“I don’t want to wake up when I’m ninety and find I’m a well-dressed, well-accessorized, lonely slave to money.”

Also, the one that really came for my throat: ‘You are thus guilty of injustice toward as many as you might have aided, and did not.’ - St. Basil

“I don’t want to wake up when I’m ninety and find I’m a well-dressed, well-accessorized, lonely slave to money.”

Also, the one that really came for my throat: ‘You are thus guilty of injustice toward as many as you might have aided, and did not.’ - St. Basil

“If ‘a friend is someone who will help you move,’ and I never need help moving, how do I know who my friends are?
I do know, of course I do. … but now I think part of [the difficulty in making and keeping friends] is more money and therefore less need of each other.”

“I want to be part of the crowd, but also stand out from it. . . At the time of writing I am wearing silver hoop earrings, not gold like everyone else’s this season, and red sneakers as a rebellion against the ubiquitous white ones, but they are still hoops and sneakers. I am like Andy in “The Devil Wears Prada,” thinking I am above the trends of the herd and yet clothed in them.”

“And if comparing a podcast to Jesus sounds grandiose, it absolutely is, but I’m attempting to pattern my life on his and I have to start applying the principles somewhere.”