Anna Chiara Brunetti

The one who looks confused.

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

"I thought gravity was a law, which meant it could be broken.

But it’s more like a language. Once you’re in it

you never get out. "
https://t.co/0BQw6i4omZ.

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

"Many interesting things have happened to adult me, but in the opinion of teen-age me there is only one real event in our lives and it occurred on the sixteenth of April, 1993, when I fell thirty feet from my bedroom window."
https://t.co/IySVQiYS7k

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

—Andrea Gibson, Letter to the Editor .@andreagibson

Via .@slowdownshow
https://t.co/gMZ2qgM5Y0

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

"a translation isn’t finished until all the answers are present and correct, with each conditioning the others. But when it comes to literature, there is rarely ever just one solution, and my job is to test as many as possible."
The Art of Translation https://t.co/CvwIw2Zowd

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

@grittylady Complimenti! 👏🏻💪🏻💛

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

"[...] rather than trying to “fix” female founders, the VC industry needs to do the much harder work of fixing itself."

[Amy Lewin @amyrlewin]

This week 43 of the good and the great from the VC world have launched a new mentoring programme for female founders.

But... IS that what is needed?

Brilliant piece from @TessaLFClarke here arguing that it's not: https://t.co/8C3tML8jLm

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

Tell me you got lucky without telling me you got lucky.
#Wordle214

Wordle 214 2/6
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[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

A small hamlet between Brisighella and Marradi is where I grew up (and where Dante's words indeed are part of everyone's everyday language). It warms my heart to read about it on the @washingtonpost. ❤

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

Once you reach Level 2 you can play mix and match.

Erica Lies, "A Taxonomy of Migraines" https://t.co/EwwhyZoUJJ via @NewYorker

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

"When I am writing, I am always translating. I think my brain gets wired in a different way when I am writing in English what Musa would be thinking in Urdu, for example. [...] For me, English is like a rubber band. I have to make it do what all these different languages do."

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

"A novelist can’t keep discrete worlds. Your business is to smash them together, against each other.
[...]
You need to have a circle of eyes, many pairs of eyes arranged all around your head and a skin that is osmotic."
--Arundhati Roy

https://t.co/jZwGm1zx1z

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“I’m grateful for the lessons one learns from great writers, but also from imperialists, sexists, friends, lovers, oppressors, revolutionaries—everybody. Everybody has something to teach a writer.” —Arundhati Roy https://t.co/EBImDKSHD3

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

"There is nothing more terrible
than waiting for the terrible. I promise.
Was the grief worth the poem? No,
but you don’t interrogate a weed
for what it does with wreckage.
For what it’s done to get here."
-- Hala Alyan
https://t.co/M1W6gsE3Pi

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

"Impressed only by the range of interest, the terrible striving in all directions. Depressed by the monotonous note of depression, and the affinity of melancholy. Impressed very rarely by cleverness, by poetry. But sometimes, I think, by an occasional good insight."

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

Patricia Highsmith - A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Woman https://t.co/qYDj1p9anE via @NewYorker

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

@repubblica In riferimento al Nobel 2020, faccio notare che Andrea Ghez è una donna, diversamente da quanto indicato nell'articolo.

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

@dkmj Glad you like it (I do too!).

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

(Also: "Rom-com characters often have passionate friends who tell them to follow their hearts, but Jane Austen knew that really it’s rational friends we need.")

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

"Rationality is one of humanity’s superpowers. How do we keep from misusing it?"

Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational? https://t.co/4UK5g4AKzk via @NewYorker

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

@chiareali Also: *female* writers - who'd want to watch that. RIGHT. 🤭 + 😭

[Anna Chiara Brunetti @annachiarabru]

@chiareali È passato un po' sotto il radar perché è su HBO Max invece che HBO liscio. A me è piaciuto molto, credo possa piacere anche a te. ❤