300 Arguments

Aphorisms. By Sarah Manguso. Three hundred of them.

Read a few at a time.

Still.

Weak.

Doesn't apply to me.

Weak.

Irrelevant.

And then, suddenly, brilliant.

Maybe just me.

Here were two I liked very much:

“The greatest commitments are to experiences with no known end points: friendship, marriage, parenthood, one's own life.”

“Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, ‘By the grace of this behavior, this individual has found it possible to continue.'”