Daisy Alioto
- We are made for survival not edification.
- The last agent I met with was a white woman my age. We showed up wearing the same blazer, and after we spent a few minutes acknowledging that fact I found it was impossible to talk about my literary aspirations without feeling self-conscious. She told me she thought I could market my book in the style of Alain de Botton’s The Architecture of Happin... See more
- The harder I sell to you the less I believe in you.
- "When I am dead do not name me in relation to capital I will be wageless & worthless & perfect." –Brendan Joyce
- In my family, you always had to account for your time. It’s the type of thing adult children blame their parents for. It’s much easier to point fingers than to find another way of living. Sometimes this Protestantism works for me, sometimes it doesn’t. I am not using it as an excuse to flail. I can flail on my own just fine–when I make the time to.
- When I imagine my life I think you at the center Adorno said there is no right life in the wrong one My wrongs are my wrongs, but you are the right one Then they’ll be my wrongs as well Only after I die I already took out the life insurance policy
- You are able to think about the future along multiple axes, I can only see a future that upholds my biases and aligns with my values. I don’t know how to compound my money, I only know how not to run out. I’m stubborn in my life and in my thinking, and sometimes it holds me back but I am too proud not to be held back by it. I think that I can write... See more
- If I am a rib, let me be the one closest to your heart– synchrony was the only calligraphy they had in Eden. I follow you around with my pen tip wet, like a cat stalks little flying things and bits of Styrofoam.
- "Everyone’s art is an expression of personality. I am a scrounger. I get on whatever plane is leaving the airport. I make meals from whatever’s in the fridge." – Laurie Stone
- Accomplishments just feel like inevitabilities that you have to work really hard for.