"People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way."

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Fred D'Aguiar

#People Quotes #Way Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.”
“You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.”
“...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.”
“I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”
“I cut my own hair most of the time. You just do it all by feel.”
“Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen.”
“The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It comes from knowing how foolish we were - vain, arrogant children - when we thought ourselves happy. It comes from knowing how fragile and doomed the old ways were, just when we thought them and ourselves, secure!. The pain comes from knowing we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again.”
“I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly.”

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