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> [“Time makes us all betray ourselves and get back to the busy work of living”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/time-makes-us-all-betray-ourselves-and-get-back-to-the-busy-work-of/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

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## More by Tim Kreider

> [“Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/because-the-essence-of-creativity-is-fucking-around-art-is-that-which/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

> [“We want to be hurt, astonished, reminded we’re alive.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/we-want-to-be-hurt-astonished-reminded-we-re-alive/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

> [“Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that chasing it is such a fool’s errand, is that happiness isn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/perhaps-the-reason-we-so-often-experience-happiness-only-in-hindsight/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

> [“The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/the-same-thing-that-makes-friendship-so-valuable-is-what-makes-it-so/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

> [“one of those nightmares where it’s the final exam for a course”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/one-of-those-nightmares-where-it-s-the-final-exam-for-a-course/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

> [“It’s always a sad revelation when a good friend acquires a girlfriend or a husband and disappears. You realize that, for them, your friendship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/it-s-always-a-sad-revelation-when-a-good-friend-acquires-a-girlfriend/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

> [“When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/when-somebody-tells-us-something-that-would-be-disturbing-or/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

> [“Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/biblical-talmudic-or-koranic-literalists-remind-me-of-children/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

> [“It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/it-s-easy-to-demonstrate-how-progressive-and-open-minded-and-loyal/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

> [“Most of us liberals are so worried that we might secretly be racists that we’re convinced this means we cannot really be racists.)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/most-of-us-liberals-are-so-worried-that-we-might-secretly-be-racists/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

> [“Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/our-frantic-days-are-really-just-a-hedge-against-emptiness/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

> [“What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/what-someone-s-lies-reveal-about-them-aspirations-to-being-an/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

> [“I've demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from this one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/i-ve-demonstrated-an-impressive-resilience-in-the-face-of-valuable/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

> [“Introducing these people to our friends and family is, in a way, more heedlessly exhibitionistic than posting nude photos or sex tapes of ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/introducing-these-people-to-our-friends-and-family-is-in-a-way-more/)

[Tim Kreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kreider/)

> [“Squandering time is a luxury of profligate youth, when the years are to us as dollars are to billionaires. Doing the same thing in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/squandering-time-is-a-luxury-of-profligate-youth-when-the-years-are/)

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