"But what I realized when I was looking back at them was that no matter how different they are, they're still coming from me, and they're still coming from my brain and my set of obsessions. I think that no matter how different I tried to make them, there were just these certain questions that I just kept circling back to as I was writing. I think they were the ones I was really swept up in in that decade."

-- Molly Antopol

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Brain Quotes

“I am allergic to domestic goddesses. Men would prefer a woman with a dirty mind to a clean house.”
“Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.”
“There's no map to human behaviour.”
“I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.”
“My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.”
“The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.”
“Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.”
“He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe”

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