“Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.” LonelinessSolitudeLonelyThe New YorkerDonald HallBetween Solitude And Loneliness Author:Donald Hall
“A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing.” BearableThe New YorkerLillian Ross Author:J.D. Salinger
“If you try to write posthumously, however, fashion doesn’t apply. You step off the catwalk, ignoring this season’s trends and resigning yourself to being unfashionable and possibly unnoticed, at least for a while. As Kurt Woolf, Kafka’s first publisher in Germany, wrote to him after Kafka’s book tanked, “You and we know that it is generally just the best and most valuable things that do not find their echo immediately.” Fashion is the attempt to evade that principle: to be the echo of someone else’s success and, therefore, to create nothing that might create an echo of its own.” Page TurnerPosthumousThe New Yorker Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“Nuance is anathema to his thinking, which is why he can maintain such fidelity to his ideas in a-hundred-and-forty-character bursts.” PoliticsDonald TrumpVaThe New YorkerCharlottesville Author:Jelani Cobb
“The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.” AttentionIgnoranceIndifferenceOblivionLife Is ShortThe WorldAmbivalencePulitzer PrizeThe New Yorker Author:Kathryn Schulz