"The greatest source of stress was that it had been three months since I'd moved to New York and I still didn't have a job. You know those books called From Homeless to Harvard or From Jail to Yale or From Skid Row to Skidmore? They're these inspirational memoirs about young people overcoming the bleakest of circumstances and going on to succeed in college. I was worried I would be the subject of a reverse kind of book: a pathetic tale of a girl with a great education who frittered it away watching syndicated Law & Order episodes on a sofa in Brooklyn. From Dartmouth to Dickhead it would be called. i needed a job."
“Living a comfortable life can allow you the psychic space needed to focus on other, often bigger things and when you treat your possessions as emblems of your hard work, they inherit a meaning that transcends the objects themselves.”
"People only have as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take." -Emma Goldman
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