7 Quotes & Sayings By Cintra Wilson

Cintra Wilson is the author of two books and a frequent contributor to Muse, The Toast, and other publications. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, and The Huffington Post. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of California at Irvine and an MFA from Bennington College Read more

She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a...
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Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for. Cintra Wilson
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How could anyone catch all of the beauty in the Present Moment, when, after years of misery, there was suddenly a day when all the wonderfulness of life unexpectedly blew down from all directions all at once? Cintra Wilson
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When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invisible English on the cue ball of your development: It influences all of your ideas about who you should be, all the ways in which you become yourself. Cintra Wilson
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There's a big luscious peach of a dream in L.A. The peach has been repeatedly exposed as overripe and tainted with wormholes... but it's still the only giant peach in town. Even if it's wet-brown and crawling with centipedes, everyone wants their bite. Cintra Wilson
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Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having anything sweet or human or normal about themselves ever again. Cintra Wilson
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Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more complication, sleaze, struggle, true beauty, unfairness, profundity, passion, and depth of consciousness than she, in her frantic struggle to be somebody other than her unspectacular self, had been previously aware of. page 302 Cintra Wilson