"What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned."

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Source : Barry Hannah (2007). “Airships”, p.53, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Barry Hannah

#Essence Quotes #Labyrinth Quotes #Bogs Quotes

“I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.”
“What I do is about living. It's about living the best life you can and enjoying the fullness of the life around you- from what you wear, to the way you live, to the way you love.”
“If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen”
“It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”
“The Social Network' was probably one of the two or three things I've done in my life that I'm most proud of. I'm not going to engage in what about it was disappointing. There's nothing about it I was disappointed in.”
“I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.”
“That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.”

Source : Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.21, Penguin
“I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.”

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