David Rakoff Quotes
Top 45 wise famous quotes and sayings by David Rakoff
David Rakoff Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.
Lying flat against the tile of the kitchen floor listening to someone else have sex is essentially my early twenties in a nutshell.
I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.
Maybe there is some solace to be derived in that: bacchanal or funeral, after enough time, the detritus looks the same.
One day Satan himself visits, along with his great-grandmother - who is, not surprisingly, a total fucking bitch.
I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.
I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.
It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humour does.
I do not go outdoors ... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.
Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.
I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.
I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.
We're creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.
Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.
Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. Well, of course not Adam and Steve. Never Adam and Steve. It's Adam and Steven.
In the window, I fantasize ... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight ...
We have become an army of multiply chemically sensitive, high-maintenance princesses trying to make our way through a world full of irksome peas.
A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets,
And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint
Had bundled itself in a stole of gray lint.
And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint
Had bundled itself in a stole of gray lint.