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They'd been impressed by facts about Skelly instead of by him. And knowing things about someone is not the same as knowing him. — Tim Kreider

Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness. — Tim Kreider

If there is some divine plan that requires my survival and the deaths of all those children in day care, I respectfully decline to participate. — Tim Kreider

When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that — Tim Kreider

His professed philosophy of "Shandyism" is a defiant frivolity that declines to take the world as seriously as it tries to insist upon. In — Tim Kreider

I can't help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn't a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn't matter. — Tim Kreider

I hate all the boring in-between parts of life. — Tim Kreider

Most of us liberals are so worried that we might secretly be racists that we're convinced this means we cannot really be racists.) — Tim Kreider

The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play. — Tim Kreider

It's one of the maddening perversities of human psychology that we only notice we're alive when we're reminded we're going to die, — Tim Kreider

We are not infinitely malleable — Tim Kreider

One of those nightmares where it's the final exam for a course — Tim Kreider

It turns out that you can blow life off for as long as you want, but you still have to take the finals. — Tim Kreider

Life is too short to be busy. — Tim Kreider

We want to be hurt, astonished, reminded we're alive. — Tim Kreider

Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it. — Tim Kreider

Often you don't know whether you're the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives. — Tim Kreider

I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone. — Tim Kreider

Master whose every whim is law. (Note to friends with children: I am referring only — Tim Kreider

The goal of a life is not to provide material for good stories. — Tim Kreider

The awkwardness of adolescence still clinging to them. — Tim Kreider

It's easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing. — Tim Kreider

The trick, I suppose, is to find someone with a touch of the pathology you require, but not so much that it will destroy you. But, — Tim Kreider

The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment. — Tim Kreider

At such times we are certainly not at our best but we are undeniably at our most human - utterly vulnerable, naked and laid open, a mess. Whenever — Tim Kreider

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economy system. — Tim Kreider

What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people. — Tim Kreider

Him a first edition of Ray Bradbury's Dark Carnival and another who thinks I owe — Tim Kreider

The smell of hospitals is like small talk at a funeral - you know its function is to cover up something else. — Tim Kreider

This is one reason people need to believe in God - because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us. — Tim Kreider

Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him — Tim Kreider

Nobody loves newborns for who they are; they aren't anyone yet. — Tim Kreider

Of course time doesn't stop for anyone; alcohol just keeps you from feeling it, the way it'll keep a man cozy while he freezes to death. — Tim Kreider

(People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist most fiercely within themselves.) — Tim Kreider