Tag: desire
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You’re Either Make the World Closer to Your Ideal, or You’re Not
There are two things about categorical statements: all of them are wrong, but some of them are useful. And so at one level, I think this piece’s title is clearly wrong: some actions don’t quite make the world better or not, they just kind of happen. But that being said, it’s clarifying to realize that fundamentally…
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OPW: The Great Gatsby
I mentioned recently that The Great Gatsby has the best first and last lines of any book I know. So on today’s Other People’s Words, those lines. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing…