"I think we think that American books are funny or they're serious literature. But humor is subversive. When you add an element of absurdism, you can get away with more, work in dark, daring questions you might not have written toward otherwise."

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Idra Novey

#Book Quotes #Dark Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.”
“I let people say and write what they want.”
“Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.”
“People don't hurt what they love.”

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“People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.”
“I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable. For years, fashion wasn't fashionable. Today fashion is so fashionable that it's almost embarrassing to say you're part of fashion. All the parodies of it. All the dreadful magazines. That has destroyed it as well, because everybody thinks fashion is attainable.”
“Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.”
“I am expecting that consumers are going to continue and exert power and influence. The idea of radical transparency is something that few brands are taking advantage of now, and most brands fight it. Iâ€™d say that in 10 years the best brands wonâ€™t be those with the best stories, sort of made up fictional stories, but those that will give an accurate and real time picture of what they are doing in the interest of the consumer, in any given time.”

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