"What occurs after revelation and paralysis?"

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Source : Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Annihilation: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

Jeff VanderMeer

#Revelations Quotes #Paralysis Quotes

“In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?”

Source : Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”
“Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.”
“You canâ€™t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.”
“I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.”

Source : "Beanie Sigel spits anti-Jay-Z rhymes in online video" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. November 18, 2009.
“Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.”
“I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.”
“Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable”
“I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.”

Source : Letter to her mother, March 14, 1847.

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