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Sloane Crosley

American Writer

Born: Aug 3, 1978

Day Me People Think World You

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I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people. Sloane Crosley

People Trees See Except Through Forest

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry. Sloane Crosley

You Will Unless Find Pastry Tart Unforgiving Professional

Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed. Sloane Crosley

Travel Problem Heights Speed Air Air Travel Slim No Problem Remarkably Feet Also Safest Am Hit Walking Afraid Confined Being Form Spaces Public Bus Aside Then Even Chances

The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending. Sloane Crosley

Day Home World Rest Spending Worry Would Would-Be Criticizing About Write Hours Offending Curious Going Going Home The Hardest Thing Then Twelve Hardest Hardest Thing Thing Night

For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane. Sloane Crosley

Me You Experience Natural Try First Difficult Enough Worse Insane Out Gears Give Perfect House Does Repair Go Ulcer Shift Author Either Titles Then Really Pop Hard Agree Publishing Publishing House Thinks Stressful

The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha. Sloane Crosley

Birthday Queen Think Herself Some Martha Martha Stewart Share Suppose Calendar Am Square Same Crafts Going Prefer Copper

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics. Sloane Crosley

Education Teacher You Mother Father About Also Executive Advertising Without Wacky Get Artist Being Special Special Education

In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories. Sloane Crosley

Woman Every Back Accessories Stories Cannot Wardrobe Certain Separated

I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street. Sloane Crosley

Me Looking Lost Sense Down Live Corner Meet City Able Someone Direction Entrance Remains Never New Know Make Terrible Always Smooth Caught Left Up Get York Northeast New York New York City Now Ever Street Right

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack. Sloane Crosley

Freedom Technology Humiliation Whatever Athletes Able Case Given Also Celebrities Personal Being Want Us Whomever Serve

Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go. Sloane Crosley

You Preserving Everything Seems Take Merit New Go Cultural Brain Historical Up Personal York Just New York Pack Your Save

There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once. Sloane Crosley

Time You Woman Marriage World Sometimes Looking Every Every Time Lobby Once Except Hotel Feels Like Clock Front Behind Being Depicting Standing Biological Apply Zone Career Desk

There is no such thing as a crazy dog person in New York. Are there people who are completely insane about their dogs? Hordes. But cat people may as well have whiskers and tails themselves. That's because their pets' lack of social need taps straight into our worst fears as the human inhabitants of New York. Sloane Crosley

Crazy People Dog Fears Our Worst Insane About Tails Cat New Well Because Dogs Person York Lack May Human New York Social Straight Themselves Inhabitants Who Pets Thing Need

Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with oneself. They represent the profound danger of growing so independent in New York that it's not merely that you don't need anyone - it's that you don't know how to need anyone. Sloane Crosley

You Cats Become Affection Community Danger Independent Oneself Merely Thus Exclusive New Know Loop How Private York Owners Represent New York Anyone Growing Profound Symbolic Need

A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them. Sloane Crosley

Animal Cats World Pet Minority Think Else Way Say About Seems Only Animal World Dogs Existence Celebration Options Quietly Store Anything Anything Else Happily Them Much Explosion Applicable Here

I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so. Sloane Crosley

You Somewhere Country Live Think Else Somewhere Else Had New Leave York New York Personalities Realities Reason Display Prepares Desire

My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house? Sloane Crosley

Buy Morning You Personality Difficult Spend Way Out Complicate Something Potato Potatoes More Like House Make Because Salad Goes Just Meals Mean Creating Your Boiling Flipping Why Things

Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak. Sloane Crosley

You Light Try Will Fall Thank You Defeat Those Weak Admit Give General Tend Categories Crutch Read Up Thank Refuse Movie Turning Productivity Who Watch Two

Juice cleansing has been all the rage for some time. And I used the word 'rage' advisedly; one must push a violent flood of liquidised vegetables and fruit through one's system for at least three days in order to perform a 'cleanse.' Sloane Crosley

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image. Sloane Crosley

You Women Will Party Side Assuring Dangers Pressures About Physique Pounds Weigh New Anorexia How York New York Decline Much Body Body Image Your Cookie Appealing Flock Image

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