Ling Ma Quotes
born 1983 United States
Ling Ma is a Chinese-American novelist and assistant professor of practice in the Arts at the University of Chicago.
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Random Ling Ma quote
9 quotes
Just because you’re adequately good at something doesn’t mean that’s what you should do.
Severance (2018)
Blythe liked to say the only things you can really do in Hong Kong are shop and eat. It is a city that distills life down to its bare essentials.
Severance (2018)
Chicago is the most American of American cities.
Severance (2018)
He spoke with authority: The millennial generation has different values than most of America. The kids coming out of college today, they don’t want jobs, they expect trust funds.
Severance (2018)
In this world, money is freedom.
Severance (2018)
You have to know that I’m leaving because of New York, not you. You know why I don’t want to live here. I don’t want to hustle 24/7 just to make rent.
Severance (2018)
If you are an individual employed by a corporation or an institution, he said, then the odds are leveraged against you. The larger party always wins. It can’t see you, but it can crush you. And if that’s the working world, then I don’t want to be a part of it.
Severance (2018)
That sounds like a conspiracy, I dismissed. One of Jonathan’s constant critiques of me was that I didn’t keep up with the news enough, but I wondered if he wasn’t over informed, deep-diving into obscure articles and message boards, seeing connections that weren’t there.
Severance (2018)
Let us return, then, as we do in times of grief, for the sake of pleasure but mostly for the need for relief, to art. Or whatever. To music, to poetry, to paintings and installations, to TV and the movies.
But mostly TV and the movies.
Severance (2018)