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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“I have a difficult task ahead of me and I have dedicated my whole life to it.”
— Franz Kafka, The Castle
Tagged: Ethics, Commitment
“I find it tasteless to be familiar.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Ethics of Explosion, A Thousand Ethics
“Philosophy, as I have understood and lived it, is a voluntary living in ice and high mountains: a seeking after everything strange and questionable in existence, all that has been excommunicated by morality.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I am So Wise (Penguin Great Ideas)
Tagged: No Ethics, Philosophy, Think Different, Screw Ethics
“I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all. ”
— William Burroughs, The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959
Tagged: Far Out, Leave Society
“The biggest elephant in the room is Uber, valued at $62.5 billion. The company claims it is profitable by some measures in North America, but it is spending huge amounts of money to capture markets in China and elsewhere.If the world’s most valuable startup must curtail its ambitions, it would send shock waves through the whole system. Precisely when current weakness in the system forces a correction even sharper than what we’ve already seen is impossible to predict, because it is about mass psychology as much as it is the financial system.”
— Christopher Mims, This Tech Bubble Is Bursting
Tagged: Uber, Startups, Funding, Economic Growth
“Nothing happens in a moment. Nothing happens quickly. If you think something’s happened quickly, you’re looking at only a part of it.   Firing a rifle shot seems to happen quickly, but what about the movement of the trigger finger? What about the decision to fire the rifle? What about all your careful target practice? What about everything in your life that happened before you decide to fire that rifle?”
— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Tagged: Time, Patience
“Feel the heat on your beach, driving in the Porsche; you think you're spoiling me. You know I might be easy now. But what you gonna do when the secret's out? I'm trouble every day. Because I'm a lady, I'll just let you wait and think of me.”
— Class Actress, Missed
Tagged: Nice Lines, Song Lyrics
“Why do I need to read sixty minutes in the morning, and swim twenty laps in the afternoon, and write a thousand words at night, in order to feel that a twenty-four-hour period has been well used?”
— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Tagged: Identity, Optimization, What Is A Good Day?, How Should A Person Spend Their Time, Addicted To Efficiency, Time
“On a Megabus to New York City — for around fifteen hours, due to a two-hour delay in Buffalo — he read all he could find by Alethia on the internet, becoming more “obsessed,” he felt, after each article, lying on his back across two seats with knees bent, twice dropping his iPhone onto his face. His interest in Alethia naturally decreased, the next few days, then they texted a few times and he felt renewed obsession, but he didn’t like her impersonal tone in their emails discussing their interview— which she’d spent eight hours transcribing— and, less than a week after they met, all he felt toward her, to his weak amusement, was an unexamined combination of indifference and vague resentment, which he described in an email to Charles, whose previous knowledge of Alethia was that Paul liked her “a lot,” as “strong aversion,” only half joking. Paul’s next email to Charles said “I feel like I ‘hate’ her” and that it seemed, by the bureaucratic language and curtness of Alethia’s emails, like she also “hated” him, that they “hated” each other.”
— Tao Lin, Taipei (Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: The Bends of Liking Someone
“In any given time period, if you look back at whatever people thought was successful in that period, those things have generally been proven as failures anyway. So you have to learn to feel confident about the prospect of failing, because it’s so inevitable.”
— Andrea Zittel, Bomb - Andrea Zittel
Tagged: In Context, Failure, Looking Back, Bigger Time Frames