#300 arguments

[wellconstructedsentences]

Aspiring to fame is aspiring to a life of small talk.

300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso

[smartskirt]

Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, 'By the grace of this behavior, this individual has found it possible to continue.

300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso

[noodledesk]

In a long relationship, you learn exactly what to do to get each other off. It becomes mechanical. But you also learn exactly what to do to enrage each other. It becomes mechanical. The pleasures of a long relationship are the things that you never quite learn about the other—the ways in which you remain strangers.

Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments

[isanyonehomeyet]

"The trouble with comparing yourself to others is that there are too many others. Using all others as your control group, all your worst fears and all your fondest hopes are at once true. You are good; you are bad; you are abnormal; you are just like everyone else."

[howifeltabouthim]

I was like that once, and I'm not like that anymore.

Sarah Manguso, from 300 Arguments

[lazyydaisyyy]

Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, By the grace of this behavior, this individual has found it possible to continue.

Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments

[resolution1003]

from 300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso

[bostonpoetryslam]

The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear. Then rewrite it, praying you'll finish in time to send a new version by morning.

Sarah Manguso, from 300 Arguments