Saisha
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Saisha
I think there are things in life that you want to telescope and compress and accelerate and streamline and make more efficient. And there are things where the value is precisely in the inefficiency, in the time spent, in the pain endured, in the effort you have to invest. And I don’t think we’re going to differentiate between those things. Because... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
Doris Lessing on reading:
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that
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“And now I just feel like the kind of person whose life partner would fall out of love with them after several years, and I can’t find a way not to be that kind of person.”
— Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You?
Can't wait for Sally Rooney's return to this year's festival 💙 She can be experienced on stage Thursday 21 August at 18:00 in a reading and Friday 22 August at 19:30 in an interview.
Watch the full interview from 2019 at Louisiana Channel
louisianaliteratureinstagram.comBut still he has something she lacks, an inner life that does not include the other person.
Sally Rooney • Normal People
You’re doomscrolling because you’re looking for something to transform you but you can’t stay with one thing for long enough to be transformed by it. You have short attention span on an existential scale. You’re gliding past thousands of small worlds in minutes, laughing at one post, feeling dread at the next, tempted to buy something right after.... See more