"Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone."

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Michael Chabon

#Lying Quotes #People Quotes

“Forget normal.â€ He grinned. â€œWeâ€™re going to be extraordinary.”
“It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.”
“Quoting Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) US civil rights leader We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.”
“Uh, stay fat people - That's my motto. It's no picnic!”
“The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion.. ..the idea of modernity is but a new attachment of things universal - a fresh relationship to the courses of the sun and to the living swing of the earth - a new fire of affection for the living essence present everywhere.”

Source : "Marsden Hartley". Book by by Gail R. Scott, p. 49; reprinted in "On art", p. 62, 1988.
“Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.”
“If I'm having relentless thoughts, I just won't shut up in my head. I know that if I put myself on the mat and just focus on a flow that I will transmute or I will transform, transfer the energy into some other act or put my attention somewhere else, I'll be back. I'll feel stronger not only in my body but most certainly in my brain.”
“But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats?”

Source : Gregory Corso (1962). “Selected poems”

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