"I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Dawn Lundy Martin

#Thinking Quotes #Listening Quotes #Language Quotes

“What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.”
“I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.”
“I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.”

Source : Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”
“You made a sacrifice. And heaven rewarded you.”
“Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.”
“Both of us were orphans. No one would remember what we remembered. The elders that stood as protective shields, as references to our past, and as reflections of who we were and are and where we came from, were gone.”
“I thought of what might be, if only the people who have too much money would help those who have too little!”
“I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people care about the kind of music I'm making.”

Source : "Above the Line: An Interview with Adrian Younge". AllHipHop.com Interview, allhiphop.com. July 10, 2015.

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