Anger Quote by Tim Kreider

“Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it.”

— Tim Kreider

“We want to be hurt, astonished, reminded we’re alive.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Tim Kreider

“one of those nightmares where it’s the final exam for a course”

— 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…

— Tim Kreider

“When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that”

— 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…

— Tim Kreider

“It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.”

— 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.)”

— Tim Kreider

“Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness.”

— 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…

— Tim Kreider