Streaming Now Quotes

“An old friend suggested I would be happier if I made the most annoying person in my life into my teacher. That was her word. She said I could learn patience, compassion, and a way to drain anger from my life. I felt like I was in a supermarket and my cart was being filled with things I don’t eat. Finding instruction in irritation is like faking an orgasm. Then it struck me: I might be the most annoying person in my friend’s life, and immediately I felt compassion for her for sticking it out with me all these years.”
― Laurie Stone, Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening

“How marvelous to live long enough to escape your past. 196

Finding instruction in irritation is like faking an orgasm. 58”
― Laurie Stone, Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening

“It's important in life not to be well-thought-of.
I mean to become so dependent of being well-thought-of you don't do the things and think the thoughts that make a person not well-thought-of. 196-7”
― Laurie Stone, Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening