beautifully said
turns of phrase worth remembering, sentences that make you feel, or think, or laugh, or cry
beautifully said
To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the nonplussed wonder of someone who has come across a vampire and found no garlands of garlic at hand.
Joan Didion • On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay From the Pages of Vogue
an abundance of verbosity rather than quality, noise rather than impact.
forbes.com
The doom-scroll economy benefits from your nihilism.
Hanna Horvath • I make good money. Why do I still feel like this?
“For my daughter, so visceral was my love, so instantaneous and complete, I knew I would kill.”
Excerpt From
“Boredom Is the Price We Pay for Meaning”
Daniel Smith
The Atlantic
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I’ve always had a taste for the lesser-known.
g.m. • How To Research Niche Ideas in Literature and Philosophy
With experience (turbocharged by claiming my professional independence) I realised, comes the gift of a certain kind of savage clarity.
Releasing The Monster Down There — Martin Weigel
love the term ‘savage clarity’
