Yukio Mishima
- Spring Snow
As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even though we're unaware of what it is. And later, when they say that young men in the early Taisho era thought, dressed, talked, in such and such a way, they'll be talking about you and me. We'll all be lumped together.
Toni Morrison
- The Bluest Eye
The quality of her clothes threatened to derange Frieda and me. Patent leather shoes with buckles, a cheaper version of which we got only at Easter and which had disintegrated by the end of May. Fluffy sweaters the color of lemon drops tucked into skirts with pleats so orderly they astounded us.
Zadie Smith
- On Beauty
He promised them a class that would challenge their own beliefs about the redemptive humanity of what is commonly called 'Art'. 'Art is the Western myth,' announced Howard, for the sixth year in a row, 'with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.
Zadie Smith
- Immigrants (White Teeth)
Despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the English. There are still young white men who are angry about that; who will roll out at closing time into the poorly lit streets with a kitchen knife wrapped in a tight fist. But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what an immigrant fears - dissolution.
Zadie Smith
- White Teeth
It's a funny thing about the modern world. You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, "Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He didn't love me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me." Now, how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way?
Hannah Kuchler (The Irish Times)
- How Silicon Valley rediscovered LSD
Paul, a start-up founder in New York, says he and his employees are less stressed since they started microdosing. But he couldn't be absolutely sure about the cause and effect: he thinks it may have also been the project-management app Asana, which they started using at the same time, to keep organised.
https://talktotransformer.com/
- AI-generated Quote 3
"He fell apart in seconds. I couldn't tell what was wrong with him," said one. They said the former NFL player's mother was crying and hysterical as she tried to care for the family's other dog. The dog had a "life-threatening heart attack," and its owner was taken to the hospital. Police say the dog's owner is being interviewed and charges are pending.
https://talktotransformer.com/
- AI-generated Quote 2
I would never have done something like that. As this episode has shown us, people in high places know that there is a significant number of people on this planet who are interested in the truth and the truth will be found out if it is done as a matter of course.
Tom Colicchio
- Obesity is a Symptom of Poverty
This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids- and this is the problem with school lunch right now- are getting sugar, fat, empty calories- lots of calories- but no nutrition.
Scott Donaldson
- The Averted Gaze in Hemingway's Fiction
This absence of a "determining (and degrading) male gaze" may seem odd to those who regard Hemingway as a macho writer and expect him to diminish his female characters into creatures who exist solely for the use and entertainment of their male companions. But that view derives from Hemingway's public persona, not from his writing. And it may seem odd, as well, because in technique Hemingway's stories closely resemble dramas in which scopophilia abounds.
Sharon Millar
- Language prescription: A success in failure's clothing?
Certainly, the implication that prescriptivism can never be linguistically innovative does not really stand up to much scrutiny. Prescription can be innovative in the sense that it can promote innovations, which may or may not make it to norm status. The feminist language campaign, for example, displays obvious characteristics of prescription: conscious intervention and attempts to impose specific usage.
Abraham Maslow
You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
Don DeLillo
- White Noise
All his teachers are male, wear rumpled clothes, need haircuts, and cough into their armpits. Together they look like teamster officials assembled to identify the body of a mutilated colleague. The impression is one of pervasive bitterness, suspicion and intrigue.
Caity Weaver
- Cardi B’s Money Moves
"Me," begins Cardi B, "I'm always watching the news. I'm always looking at it on my phone. I hate when you talk about something that's going on in the community, people think, because you're famous, you doing it for clout. But you concerned about it because you are a citizen of America; you are a citizen of the world. If I want to get cool points, I could take a picture with a thong and my ass and y'all gonna give me the same amount of likes. I'm gonna trend even bigger.
