"The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay."

-- Richard Rodriguez

#Drama Quotes #Way Quotes #Energy Quotes

“The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.”
“There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.”
“Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.”
“And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.”
“There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.”
“Where you live in the United States shouldn't determine how long and how healthy you live - but it does, far more than it should.”
“For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2013). “Night Film”, p.463, Random House
“Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”

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