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"Should I be worried about how much I'm relating to this book?" — Jun 04, 2024 04:32PM
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Erich Fromm had made this point more than fifty years earlier: “Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.”
“He gives me the look. That weird, dumb glare that men give you before they kiss you, a moment of vacancy before leaning in, a twisting of the head as if it were a star-shaped block to push into a baby’s shape sorter.”
― Disappoint Me
― Disappoint Me
“I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferred my affections to be anonymous. Independent. Not because I didn’t care, but because I cared differently. I knew it better than anyone: The most palatable version of me was one seen from a distance.”
― Sociopath
― Sociopath
“I would likely not make a good actor because I want credit for being interesting enough as myself.”
― Sucker Punch: Essays
― Sucker Punch: Essays
“no one raises their voice in my house no one lays their fleshy hands on me no one is cruel if they are fool enough to try then they die and what a death what a death to not be loved by me anymore”
― Content Warning: Everything
― Content Warning: Everything
“I’m taken by how little I feel at what I’ve said, how something once anguishing and hurtful has smoothed into a pebble, a small anecdote to skip into the lake of conversation.”
― Disappoint Me
― Disappoint Me
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