Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONGPeople always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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