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a mish-mash of interestingness, according to me ♡

[katiejay]

"Thinking is the point. I don’t want to get into the habit of avoiding it purely for the sake of convenience."

― Wendy Liu, The Guardian

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“Peggy, just think about it. Deeply. Then forget it. And an idea will jump up in your face.”

― Don Draper, Mad Men

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"I am stunned at the complete and utter lack of substance. This is not how I pictured things working."

— Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A story of where I used to work

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stop it right now.

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"To state the obvious: a wannabe boss, of any gender, espouses the hope of one day being an owner and a dominator instead of a hustler, let alone a comrade."

— How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment, Literary Hub

[katiejay]

"She presents herself not as an authority but as the friend who has “figured it out,” the enterprising if occasionally manic neighbor who will waste no opportunity to share an educational footnote."

— Joan Didion, The Promises Martha Stewart Made—and Why We Wanted to Believe Them, The New Yorker

[katiejay]

"Success like Stewart’s—like Didion’s—always provokes outrage: the question of who this woman actually is versus who she’s pretending to be. The fuss around Stewart, Didion argued, was driven by the “misconception that she has somehow tricked her admirers into not noticing the ambition that brought her to their attention.”"

— Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion's "everywoman.com"

[katiejay]

"Perhaps the booming nostalgia for the 90s and early 2000s generally—and the early web specifically—is in part a longing for an integrated, at-home identity online. Those of us who had a Xanga site, or a LiveJournal, or a Geocities page, or even a MySpace page know what it was like to have a digital home that was connected to a bigger social ecosystem. Early users of forums and bulletin boards know what it was like to have a digital neighborhood rather than #community. These services encouraged us to decorate our homes—paint the walls, add art and music, display meaningful items, etc. Yes, those digital homes were janky, mismatched disasters of design. But they were ours."

— Tara McMullin, Broken Links

[katiejay]

"Memories, like dreams, are reconstructed narratives of what may have happened."

— Red Symons, The Sydney Morning Herald

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"By the time the tulips bloomed the next spring, her baby had arrived and she had left her husband. Tulips always made her smile, she told me, her arms now full of a new bunch of them. They reminded her of how she had come by her liberty."

— Rebecca Traister, The Return of the Marriage Plot, The Cut

[katiejay]

"In Sydney, he set out to map a circle walk of the harbour. With a group of volunteers, he worked five days a week for five years to produce a series of maps and marked routes, the lawyer in him hunting out every right-of-way and crown land passage to connect the bush tracks that ring the harbour. He fought and convinced councils and rule-bound bureaucracies. He found funds where there were none."

— Erik Jensen, Bill Orme: A lawyer with a thirst for justice, Sydney Morning Herald (2016)

[katiejay]

To take a meeting, you do things like ‘put your best foot forward’ and ‘dress for success’. I dressed for something else. I wanted success, but not here. There wasn’t anyone whose job made me say, “I want to do that” or “I want to be her.” — Laura Belgray, Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst

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“I make Google Maps for friends the way you would a mixtape, and I get a lot of pleasure out of that.” — The Snobs Guide to Google Travel Docs

[freudensteins-monster]

ThatSingerReactions discovers Jimmy Barnes and John Farnham (and johnny diesel) for the first time. 🤣🤣 My sister sent me on a bit rabbit hole through his videos watching him freak out about Jimmy Barnes' voice and I had to go back to where he first heard him.

[katiejay]

what an incredible talent. thank god for glenn wheatley.

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iconic 🤍

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“Everybody wants you to be novel and creative, but you also need to be truthful and likely. You need to be able to say that this is completely new and exciting, but it’s very likely given what we know so far.”

— The Mind of a Con Man, New York Times, 2013