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Jessa Crispin Quotes: I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.
         

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.


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I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.



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I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.



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American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.



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Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."



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You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.



Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.

Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.



There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.



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I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.





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