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Porochista Khakpour

"My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien" status. I remember trying to learn English on kindergarten playgrounds. I tried hard to be a convincing American but it was a losing battle. I was labeled weird and that tag never left me - all through high school, I was always the oddball. It was not always an easy path - I just had to tell myself that one day, being on the periphery would become an asset (and I think it finally has, as a creative adult)."

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Porochista Khakpour

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“Constant conflict is actually often good politics, because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at Election Day. And if they're more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you'll win, because your crowd will show up.”
“Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.”
“It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.”

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“Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke.”
“Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone, unicorns live inside the true believer's heart. Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.”
“Peace isnâ€™t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, itâ€™s an experience thatâ€™s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.”
“Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.”
“After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.”

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