“The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsid-eration, getting them wrong again. That’s how we know we’re alive; we’re wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that—well, lucky you.”
Philip Roth
more infosource: American Pastoral (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997), 35.
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category: judgment, living, right, wrong
medium: fiction
via: Nellie Perera“My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.”
Ruth Reichl
more infosource: “Questions for Ruth Reichl: Clearing the Table,” interview by Deborah Solomon, The New York Times, October 15, 2009.
category: earth, food, living, sustainability
medium: interview
“The dead don’t need anything. The rest of us could use some company.”
Elizabeth McCracken
more infosource: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008), 138.
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category: company, death, living, loneliness, need
medium: memoir
“There is a way of living which makes for greater airiness, space, ease, freedom. It is like an airplane’s rise above the storms. It is a way of looking at obstacles as something to overcome; of looking at what defeats us as a monster created by ourselves, within ourselves, by our fears, and therefore dissolvable and transformable.”
Anaïs Nin
more infosource: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Vol. 4 1944–1947) (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971), 148.
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category: fear, freedom, living, obstacle, perspective, transform
medium: diary
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