David Rakoff Quotes

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• People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over…
• I am no fun at all. In fact, I am anti-fun. Not as in anti-violence, but as in anti-matter. I am not so much against…
• There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because…
• The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous…
• Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop…
• There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t strike me as…
• There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.
• Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state:…
• I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is,…
• I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.
• Everyone I vote for never wins. Welcome to America.
• I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.
• I value kindness in myself and others. I try to remain super-vigilant about my targets and make extra sure that my sometimes barbed comments are…
• I have no problem with animals, I just like people more.
• My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
• Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.
• Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as…
• Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based…
• I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person…
• I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is,…

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