"Everything's weird if you stare at it."

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Source : "The Dungeon Master" by Sam Lipsyte, www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2010.

Sam Lipsyte

#Staring Quotes

“I think we all want to be Gisele BÃ¼ndchen. Whether it inspires. Not only for her beauty. Successful she is, is a businesswoman, is an activist, a good mother is a strong woman and a good example to all the powerful women . Everybody wants to know what she does or says, rather than what she wears.”
“In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.”

Source : Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale
“The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.”

Source : "Why Do Men Barbecue?". Book by Richard Shweder, 2003.
“At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very late. So I've got time, right? As long as I stay healthy and eat right.”
“I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.”

Source : "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.
“You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.”
“It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live.”
“Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.”

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