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Daniel Coffeen Quotes

Total quotes: 4
“Sometimes, I do want to feel sober — serious, quiet, reserved. Sometimes, however, I want to be delirious.”
— Daniel Coffeen, What Is Sobriety?
Tagged: Sober, Drugs, Delirious
“I want to say that to know something, to really know it and not just know of it, is to go with it. To know, then, is not to know about something but to know with something, to be moved with that thing.”
— Daniel Coffeen, Knowing Things
Tagged: Knowing
“Fuck opportunity. This moment right now is beautiful and perfect. It’s not an opportunity. It’s already happening whether you like it or not — so you might as well like it.”
— Daniel Coffeen, Don’t Try To Be Happy
Tagged: Opportunity, Happiness, The way forward, Quote of the Moment
“High school, it seems, has changed. It has become competitive. Young men and women — 13 to 18 years old — must work more or less tirelessly to ensure their spot at a college deemed worthy to them and their families. So rather than living their adolescent lives — lives brimming with desires and vitality, with vim, vigor, and brewing lust — these kids are working at old age homes, cramming for tests, popping Adderall just to make the literal and proverbial grade. And for what? So they can go to a school that puts them in debt for the rest of their lives. School has become a great vehicle of capitalism: it quashes the revolution implicit in adolescence while simultaneously fomenting perpetual indebtedness.”
— Daniel Coffeen, The Scholastic Swindle: Quashing Adolescence
Tagged: Debt, Capitalism, Teenage Wildlife, Youth, High Scool, Standardized
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