Quotes
from Martina Navratilova
"Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people."
Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness -
Zadok Rabinowitz
“These days, it’s easy to feel that we’ve fallen out of connection with one another and with the earth and with reason and with love. I mean: we have. But to read, to write, is to say that we still believe in, at least, the possibility of connection.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on
From @megwolitzer's book, The Interestings.
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instagram.comGoethe said once “if we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming”.
Kyla Scanlon • Language, Loneliness, and AI
Oscar Wilde once said “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation”.