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Meanwhile, some of the most serious people I know do their serious thing gratis and make their loot somewhere else. My dad, whose photographs sit at the top of every Experimental History post, quit his job at the newspaper and went to work as a postal carrier instead. Why? As he puts it: “I could afford better lenses delivering mail than I could ta... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Surely You Can Be Serious
Love isn’t powerful enough. But spite? Spite can change the world.
Fredrik Backman • The Answer Is No: A Short Story
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What is it about shame, that a teaspoon of it weighs so much more than a teaspoon of happiness or any other innocuous emotion? What is it about shame that it always feels like the truth? If she could only feel more of the shame, went her logic, she could get at the actual truth, and a solution.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner • Long Island Compromise
An accurate description of depression
Morality is a luxury.
Fredrik Backman • Us Against You
When guys are scared of the dark, they’re scared of ghosts and monsters, but when girls are scared of the dark, they’re scared of guys.
Fredrik Backman • Us Against You
Women are always the problem in the men’s world.
Fredrik Backman • Us Against You
“Like every other woman in the world who has ever been told to calm down, Rachel had no idea how to behave.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
Fleishman Is in Trouble Quotes by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
'Well, I love music. I love playing music. But I'd find it a hard thing to teach. I've always found it hard to talk about music.’