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- Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human,…
- You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You…
- I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.
- I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.
- I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the…
- I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the…
- I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the…
- I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is…
- Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some…
- My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a…
- My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one…
- Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs…
- It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic…
- If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.
- What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that…
- You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what happened with your…
- In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but…
- Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a bady's beshattered diaper,…
- I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day…
- You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn’t call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold