More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
giving someone a lift to the airport—the ultimate gesture of friendship.
Even then, they understood that American life is unbounded promise and hypocrisy, faith and greed, new spectrums of joy and self-doubt, freedom enabled by enslavement. All of these things at once.
That’s the dilemma of life: you have to find meaning, but by the same time, you have to accept the reality.
Every generation has to face the problem and live through and try its best to overcome the frustration.
Maybe this is what it meant to be known, this feeling of being exposed and transparent.
Friendship is about the willingness to know, rather than be known.
Friendship rests on the presumption of reciprocity, of drifting in and out of one another’s lives, with occasional moments of wild intensity.
