Cyrus Chen
- someone who has low self-esteem is really a narcissist in disguise, because both share the obsession with the self, no matter if it’s awesome or awful.
from What does your stupid art even do for the world? by Alex Dobrenko`
“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”
-Charles Bukowski
also think we need to learn to enjoy locality. Culture emerges from the connections between people, and I believe these are always strongest in person. Face-to-face cultural engagement is necessarily participatory, online cultural engagement rarely is. Nearly all of my most fulfilling and exciting experiences, those that have made me feel part of a
... See morefrom Q̾u̾i̾c̾k̾ ̾F̾i̾r̾e̾: Creation Anxiety by MØRNING
Brave New World founded my nascent moral philosophy and became the subject of my college admissions essay,
from When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- A narcissist critiques a person not based on the actual merit or behavior of that individual but rather out of personal interest or a desire to wound someone they perceive as a threat. Their critiques are typically driven by self-serving motives, aiming to elevate themselves or to harm those who challenge or threaten their ego. Additionally, they m... See more
“For the last twenty years, until recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories were the template of ethnic fiction that supports the fantasy of Asian American immigrants as compliant strivers. The fault lies not in Lahiri herself, who I think is an absorbing storyteller, but in the publishing industry that used to position her books as the “single story” on i
... See more- The Electoral College is DEI for rural white folks.
