Tag: personal essays
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How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right: Essays on Modern Life
“In an age when we are ever more targeted and profiled and mined for information, reading a book allows you to be, for so long as the covers hold you, truly quiet and undisturbed.”
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
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Intimations
“What was once necessary appears inessential; what was taken for granted, unappreciated and abused now reveals itself to be central to our existence. Strange inversions proliferate. People find themselves applauding a national health service that their own government criminally underfunded and neglected these past ten years. People thank God for ‘essential’ workers they once considered lowly, who not so long ago they despised for wanting fifteen bucks an hour.”
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Whose Story Is This?
“We are, as a culture, moving to a future with more people and more voices and more possibilities. Some people are being left behind, not because the future is intolerant of them but because they are intolerant of this future.”
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What If There Were No Whites In South Africa?
“When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today.”
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Classic Scrapes
“When I was a baby, I urinated in my own mouth. […] The reason I’m telling you this is so that, straight out the gate, you know who I am and where I came from. This is how my life began and more or less how it continued for many, many years. This book is essentially the tale of a man repeatedly urinating into his own mouth. Pleased to meet you.”
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