Heti Men Quotes & Sayings

I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with men and women. It's better. Instead of having sex, we have art. — Sheila Heti

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something! — Sheila Heti

A problem I've always had with fashion magazines is that women are encouraged to copy other women. While I suspect that many men enjoy copying other men (consider the idea of the alpha male and beta males), and while part of what makes a man "superior" is how close he can get to "embodying manliness — Sheila Heti

My hair is an untidy bob. I am very dark, but I embellish the roots because I am white in one clump. — Erin O'Connor

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones. — Josh Homme

Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my first love. At fifteen, she was tall, slender, very dark: an intelligent, sly girl possessed of what I think of now, though I didn't think of then, as a kind of debatable beauty. — John Burnside

But it is sufficient to reflect for a moment, in order to understand that this world was not made for such creatures as we are. Thought, which is developed by a miracle in the nerves of the cells in our brain, powerless, ignorant and confused as it is, and as it will always remain, makes all of us who are intellectual beings eternal and wretched exiles on earth. — Guy De Maupassant

I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that. — Peter Capaldi

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray. — Henry Ward Beecher

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time. — Sheila Heti

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band. — Barry Gibb