Sean Rose
@seanrose
Sean Rose
@seanrose
INTERVIEWER Some people say they can’t understand your writing, even after they read it two or three times. What approach would you suggest for them? FAULKNER Read it four times.
Stewart and the board had decided on our pricing plan early on: $9 per user per month, later amended to $8 (“because it felt better”). “Less than the cost of a catered lunch for your team, once a month,” Stewart would say to prospective customers.
Writer James Baldwin on hate as a defense mechanism: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
This, then, is the key sleight-of-hand at the heart of our psychosocial problems: We pretend we’re in charge, both to others and even to ourselves, but we’re less in charge than we think. We pose as privileged insiders, when in fact we’re often making the same kind of educated guesses that any informed outsider could make. We claim to know our own
... See moreIt is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.
Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.
— Neil Strauss
Human beings set out to encounter other worlds, other civilizations, without having fully gotten to know their own hidden recesses, their blind alleys, well shafts, dark barricaded doors.