Ellicia Chiu

In Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America, main character Tracy (played by the magnificent Lola Kirke) observes Brooke, a shamelessly yet awkwardly charming woman of all trades played by Greta Gerwig, citing her demeanor as “Her beauty was that rare kind that made you want to look more like yourself, not like her.”

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Simone Weil, who noted “it is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves” and if awareness of self is the ultimate goal, one that precedes charm and ultimately informs it, then we must know it’s achieved in tandem with relentless, playful interaction with the real world

The thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding