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> [“At a certain age our parents offhandedly start telling us things we’ve never heard before, about themselves and their families, their upbringing and history. They’re turning their lives into stories, trying to make sense of them in retrospect and pass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kreider/at-a-certain-age-our-parents-offhandedly-start-telling-us-things-we/)

[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/)

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

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