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Meghan Daum Quotes

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“I did not know that the life I was living in my twenties, a life I was certain was a temporary condition, was, in fact, the only one for me.”
— Meghan Daum, My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27
“When I think back on the places I've lived, I now wonder this: I wonder if the real measure of 'home' is the degree to which you can leave it alone.”
— Meghan Daum, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House
Tagged: Content, Moving Houses, Real Estate
“Yesterday, a piece of my house came off in my hands.”
— Meghan Daum, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House
Tagged: first lines of books
“There’s a linguistic satisfaction to saying fuck. The word has nice consonants. The feeling of curling your lower lip around your lower teeth to make the 'f' sound is a reliably good one. There’s a deeper visceral satisfaction, too. Because the word was so long verboten, because it’s still technically R-rated language even though no one really thinks about such ratings anymore, it still feels a little dangerous. It feels adult, at least insofar as children under 12 are the only people from whom it would be shocking to hear the word.”
— Meghan Daum, Why ‘F*ck’ Is the Word of the Year
Tagged: Vulgar, Words and Its Meanings
“More than just shelter for ourselves and for our loved ones, more than just 'the biggest purchase you'll ever make,' a house is a repository for every piece of baggage we've ever carried. Our homes protect us from the outside world, show off our taste, and accommodate our stuff. Perhaps above all, they prove to ourselves and to the world that we've really and truly moved out of our childhood bedrooms.”
— Meghan Daum, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House
Tagged: Childhood Bedrooms, Home, House, Shelter
“A common advertising campaign strategy, especially in subway and bus ads, seems to involve trading on New Yorkers’ mythic negativity by reminding them what curmudgeons they still are. 'New Yorkers love us and they hate everything,' an ad for Oscar health insurance says. 'Over eight million people in NYC and we help you avoid them all,' the food delivery app Seamless says. It’s as if New York, now softened by safety and affluence, is in the position of trying to sell itself back to itself. Don’t worry, we’re still a bunch of jerks! It’s as if we need constant convincing that it’s still possible to feel like a New Yorker, even if New York doesn’t feel the way it used to.”
— Meghan Daum, Returning to a Gentler Gotham
Tagged: New York City, Oscar, Seamless
“(On outing her sister to their parents) ‘What I didn’t say in the book is how it messed up our relationship for like two years,’ Dunham said, sipping a smoothie as industrial-grade Vitamix blenders roared in the background.

‘It was not two days,’ Dunham said. ‘It was a month.’

‘It was about a week,’ Grace said. ‘It was about two weeks to one week.’

‘You came out to me, like, a week into shooting ‘Tiny Furniture,’ ’ — Dunham’s 2010 feature film — ‘and I didn’t tell Mom and Dad for like a week after we wrapped.’

Grace rolled her eyes. ‘Without getting into specifics,’ she said, ‘most of our fights have revolved around my feeling like Lena took her approach to her own personal life and made my personal life her property.

Basically, it’s like I can’t keep any of my own secrets,’ Dunham said. ‘And I consider Grace to be an extension of me, and therefore I couldn’t handle the fact that she’s a very private person with her own value system and her own aesthetic and that we do different things.”
— Meghan Daum, Lena Dunham Is Not Done Confessing
“I think I can safely say that the highlight of the relationship was the eight or so seconds it took him to walk through my front door for the first time and behold the awesomeness of my taste and self-sufficiency (and he liked the place; he really, really liked it!). In one perfect moment, the house fused my real self and my fantasy version of myself into one glorious—if unmanicured— entity. Here was a woman with azure walls and leaded-glass windows! Here was a woman with no roommates, no shared walls, and an air conditioner! How could anyone not fall for her instantly? How could she not be irresistible to every man, woman, child, and pet who had the occasion to cross her threshold? And how, in turn, could the self-possessing effects of all this experience and all these beautiful objects and all this space not allow her to see the love and irresistibility of others?”
— Meghan Daum, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House
Tagged: Fantasy Self, Home, Homer, Ourselves In Objects
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