"Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine."

-- Julian Baggini

#Jobs Quotes #Real Quotes #Self Quotes

“Cat, hmmm? From where I sit you look more like a Kitten." My head jerked around and I shot him an annoyed look. Oh, I was going to enjoy this, all right. "It's Cat," I repeated firmly. "Cat Raven." "Whatever you say, Kitten Tweedy.”
“Iâ€™ve been rereading your story. I think itâ€™s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but thatâ€™s okay. We dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks. Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”
“I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.”
“With a face like mine, I do better in print.”
“Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths: That you are a self, that beyond anything else you want the best for that self. That, if it is to be you or someone else, you need it to be you, no matter what.”

Source : Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.57, Random House
“The free man never thinks of escape.”
“Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.”
“Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.”

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