There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating.
Statistics are designed to keep you safe. - Jenny Diski
Statistics are designed to keep you safe.
- Jenny Diski
There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This is not because I … - Jenny Diski
There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This is not because I …
But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a touri… - Jenny Diski
But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a touri…
It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters. - Jenny Diski
It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.
For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life. - Jenny Diski
For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.
Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away. - Jenny Diski
Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.
There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and theref… - Jenny Diski
There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and theref…
We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it clear? I don't li… - Jenny Diski
We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it clear? I don't li…
Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness of the interior an… - Jenny Diski
Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness of the interior an…
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