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 KreiderAnytime I hear about another one of us gone berserk, shooting up his ex’s office or drowning her kids to free herself up for her Internet boyfriend, the question I always ask is not, like every other tongue-clucking pundit in the country, how could this have happened? but why doesn't this happen every day?
Tim KreiderStichwörter: madness anger shooting
One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier work of understanding.
Tim KreiderStichwörter: empathy judgment understanding
What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.
Tim KreiderStichwörter: empathy understanding
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 KreiderStichwörter: humor romance stalking romantic-comedy
I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.
Tim KreiderIt turns out that when there is some conspicuous gap or contradiction at the center of someone's existence, there is probably a very specific, obvious reason for it, and the reason you're avoiding confronting it directly is that it's something you don't want to know.
Tim KreiderStichwörter: secrets personality
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 KreiderI've demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from this one is that I am capable of learning nothing from almost any experience, no matter how profound.
Tim KreiderStichwörter: ignorance survival
Watching middle-class conservatives vote for politicians who've proudly pledged to screw them and their children over fills me with the same exasperated contempt I feel for rabbits who zigzag wildly back and forth in front of my tires instead of just getting off the goddamn road.
Tim KreiderStichwörter: politics conservatives middle-class
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