Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by Hua Hsu

That’s the dilemma of life: you have to find meaning, but by the same time, you have to accept the reality. How to handle the contradiction is a challenge to everyone of us. What do you think?

Again, we have to have emotion that differentiate human being with machine, robot. But we also need to know how to control it and will not be carried away by it. Do you agree?

The intimacy of friendship, he wrote, lies in the sensation of recognizing oneself in the eyes of another.

Friendship rests on the presumption of reciprocity, of drifting in and out of one another’s lives, with occasional moments of wild intensity.

Derrida’s “deferral of meaning” and how words are merely signs that can never fully summon what they mean? Yet words are all we have, simultaneously bringing us closer, casting us farther away.

The only constant in this life, in this work, is the passage of time, and with it, change. “And yet,” Carr writes, quoting Galileo, and beholding our world, “it moves.”