"I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off oneâ€™s cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family."

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Source : Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.35, Penguin

Sloane Crosley

#Phones Quotes #Cells Quotes #Tears Quotes

“There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.”
“Nietzsche's 'perspectivalism' was expressly directed against the 'laughable juxtaposition of "man and world"'. But 'absolutist' accounts, too, typically try to demonstrate that human beings are integral components of the world these accounts articulate - that, for example, we are simply material bodies subject to the same natural processes as everything else.”
“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
“At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.”
“All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.”
“I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.”
“If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.”
“In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.”

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