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Lessons on Greatness: Reflections On “A Conversation With Patti Smith”
“For Smith, poet and painter William Blake exemplified this approach to life. She remarked: ‘Despite the fact he had no proof from the world he was worth anything—he would have gotten 4 likes [on Instagram]—he did his work.’”
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White Doll, Asian Woman
“But was my femininity forced on me, the only feasible result of a life grown around dolls and children’s books?”
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A Sprained Ankle and Two Princeton Plagues
A rumination on campus culture and personal pain.
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Life Lessons from Mahler and Fungi
Two Nass writers reflect on the nature of beauty through myriad lenses.
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The Opposite of Hunger is Still Hunger
“But you put me here in America— in rich, white, suburban America, where the people are bland and the food even more so. You put me here in this diner, and I hate you for it.”
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Freshman Year From My Childhood Bedroom
“Applying to colleges, I held one core condition: there was no way I was staying in this town.”
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Beauty-Sick
“Looking back, I feel the peculiar embarrassment of having been a teenage girl with teenage girl concerns, but the lives and concerns of teenage girls are often dismissed as trivial things, and if I could tell myself at 13 what I know now, I would.”
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