O'Grady

I have been told, more than once, that I am not good at getting to the point. I have also been told (mostly by my mother) that I am a great story teller. In either case, this is my attempt.
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“ But if you consider this in human terms, and you imagine a person defined by a desperation to be liked, what do you see? You see a person without integrity, without a center. In more pathological cases, you see a narcissist — a person who can’t tolerate the tarnishing of his or her self-image that not being liked represents, and who therefore either withdraws from human contact or goes to extreme, integrity-sacrificing lengths to be likable. ”

This quote is from Jonathan Franzen’s May 28th NYT Op-Ed piece Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts. I half imagined (slash hoped) that the next sentence would read “The person I have in mind is Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert.”

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