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Category: Nathan Hill

There are some mysteries of the universe that ought to remain mysteries.

mysteries, universe

She’d decided that about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you’re twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you don’t know what your small true part is until much later.

It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.

I believe what you believe and you believe what you believe and we’ll agree to disagree. It’s liberal tolerance meets dark ages denialism. It’s very hip right now.

hip, nihilism, tolerance

They were coming back to his mother’s neighborhood now, the eastern boundary of which was a bridge spanning a know of train tracks that cut through the city like a zipper.

a trauma that breaks you into brand new pieces.

nathan-hill, the-nix, trauma

The things we love the most are the most disfiguring. Such is our greed for them.

disfiguring, greed, love

A dormitory was a hopeless idea. Whoever thought of encasing two hundred girls in a concrete box?

dormitory, girls

It was true. Heard it on Cronkite.

What a treacherous thing a body was, how it so blatantly acted out the mind’s secrets.

You know, there used to be a difference between authentic music and sellout music. I’m talking about when I was young, in the sixties? Back then we knew there was a soullessness to the sellouts, and we wanted to be on the side of the artists. But now? Being a sellout is the authentic thing. When Molly Miller says ‘I’m just being real,’ what she means is that everyone wants money and fame and any artist who claims otherwise is lying. the only fundamental truth is greed, and the only question is who is up front about this. That’s the new authenticity. Molly Miler can never be accused of selling out because selling out was her goal all along.

art, artistic-integrity, selling-out

When all you have is the memory of a thing, all you can think about is how the thing is gone.