beautifully said
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beautifully said
The sublime has given way to the garish, the sacred to the profane.
Opinion | Where Did All the Classy Americans Go? — The Wall Street Journal
From WSJ Where Did All the Classy Americans Go? A beautiful line in an otherwise lacking op-ed
@Josh: “Ghetto is just creativity that hasn’t been exploited yet”
Sycophancy has a kind of momentum. Like any form of groupthink, it is part conformity, part self-preservation. The first person to grovel is undignified, but each subsequent act of cowardice allows the next person to acquiesce more easily.
The only sensible way to improve your writing is by echoing the work of other writers. Good artists copy and great artists steal quotes from Picasso.
Maggie Appleton • The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays
surrounded by the detritus of dashed hopes
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.” George Bernard Shaw
Peter D'Autry • Math and Logic Cannot Create Minds
an angsty mismatch between personal expectation and economic reality
Opinion | Everything Is for Sale Now. Even Us. (Published 2018)
“A commitment to self-improvement”
We’re inclined to leave them unencumbered by a definition, to preserve their ability to shift shapes.
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
I love the way this sentence is structured