Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

Living a life without any purpose is the same as walking dead

people who choose to work seven days a week are essentially slaves

Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life.  That's the hope, anyway.

Lying flat against the tile of the kitchen floor listening to someone else have sex is essentially my early twenties in a nutshell.

With no small remorse, she thought, "He and his mess Better not come near this fabulous dress".

This being a stranger was like being dead, And brought to mind how, in a book he had read That most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

But thanks to my rapidly dividing cells, I no longer have that feeling—although I remember it very well—that if I just buckled down to the great work at hand, lived more authentically, stopped procrastinating, cut out sugar, then my best self was just there right around the corner. Yeah, no. I’m done with all that. I

My room is cheerfully located between the sixth-floor elevators. The springs of my bed wheeze. The elevator dings. The ice machine right outside my door rumbles forth its icy bounty, a steady tattoo that beats “Stay up! Stay up!” I am in a canvas that Edward Hopper never felt bummed out enough to paint.

It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humour does.

David Rakoff

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Written By David Rakoff

Written By David Rakoff

Written By David Rakoff

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Written By David Rakoff

Written By David Rakoff

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