Edit: while I’m at it, does anyone know what I should do when I’m waiting for a coincidence/adventure to happen, but it never comes? I can’t really go outside and arrange for it to happen because I don’t know what I’m looking for.

  • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

    ETA, same thing a different way: “That’s the thing. I don’t think I believe in ‘deep down’. I kind of think all you are is just the things that you do.”

      • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        The first one is from Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night, which is the story of the American Nazi propagandist, Howard Campbell, who briefly appears in the more well-known book, Slaughterhouse Five. The second is from the show BoJack Horseman, specifically episode 12 of the first season.

    • SubArcticTundraOP
      2·
      6 months ago

      I feel like your personality is largely the sum of what you communicate to others.

      • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Oof, this feels unintentionally personal. The stories those quotes come from are about doing bad things while thinking of yourself as actually a good person “deep down.” For me, though, it was realizing that people can like you for who you are only if you communicate to them who you are.