David Rakoff – Waldina

David Rakoff – Words To Live By

If you don’t have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously

Have you ever had a book that became such a part of your existence that you cherish it like a very good life-long friend? One

Today is David Rakoff’s 56th birthday. He is quite possibly the wittiest writer we have seen this century. The 20th century had Dorothy Parker and

The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous

Is there anything more blandly sweet, less evocative of this great city, and more goyish than any other baked good with the possible exception of

If you don’t have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously

The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous

Is there anything more blandly sweet, less evocative of this great city, and more goyish than any other baked good with the possible exception of

Is there anything more blandly sweet, less evocative of this great city, and more goyish than any other baked good with the possible exception of

The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous

If you don’t have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously

Have you ever had a book that became such a part of your existence that you cherish it like a very good life-long friend? One

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