beautifully said
turns of phrase worth remembering, sentences that make you feel, or think, or laugh, or cry
beautifully said
“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
― Georgia O'Keefe
Ours is the work of helping others hold those artifacts and insights in their hands, however briefly, and of considering what ought to be reserved from the ever-sucking vortex of oblivion—and why. It’s the calling known as education, which the literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak once defined as the “non-coercive rearranging of desire.”
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? | the New Yorker
There are a few ideas fermenting.
The Talks • Dennis Paphitis: “Life Without Some Excess, Forget It”
Great use of imagery language here.
Many young people are furious about the economic lot they have drawn by being born into an era of significant wealth inequality
This feels to me like pointing at daisies along the train tracks as an actual locomotive screams up from behind.
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? | the New Yorker
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.
an angsty mismatch between personal expectation and economic reality
Opinion | Everything Is for Sale Now. Even Us. (Published 2018)
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.