"No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward."

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Source : Karen Tei Yamashita (1997). “Tropic of Orange: A Novel”

Karen Tei Yamashita

#Imagination Quotes #Cheesy Quotes #Fascination Quotes

“If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.”
“Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.”
“An excess of reason is itself a form of madness”
“I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus.”
“I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.”
“Never find your delight in another's misfortune.”
“How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?”
“I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.”

Source : "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.

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