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

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 quotes: Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness.

Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness.

Tim Kreider quotes: 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.

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 quotes: When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that

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

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

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I hate all the boring in-between parts of life.

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

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

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 quotes: The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.

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

Tim Kreider quotes: 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,

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 quotes: We are not infinitely malleable

We are not infinitely malleable

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

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

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

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 quotes: Life is too short to be busy.

Life is too short to be busy.

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

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

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

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

Tim Kreider quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.

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

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

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

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

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

Tim Kreider quotes: The awkwardness of adolescence still clinging to them.

The awkwardness of adolescence still clinging to them.

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

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

Tim Kreider quotes: 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,

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 quotes: The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.

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

Tim Kreider quotes: 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

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

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 quotes: What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.

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

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

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

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

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

Tim Kreider quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him

Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him

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

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

Tim Kreider quotes: 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.

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 quotes: (People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist most fiercely within themselves.)

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