"Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In nonfiction, particularly that which takes personal narrative for its primary topic, I have a finite space and a finite amount of material. I can't fabricate material, I can only shape and burrow into it."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Melissa Febos

#Space Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.”
“I've got an air mattress for a bed...really living the high life.”

Source : "Prospect Q&A: Clayton Kershaw". Interview with Adam Foster, www.baseballamerica.com. July 25, 2007.
“Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?”
“Art is as useful as bread.”
“So when one thought goes into your mind, it's not just one thought, it has to bounce off both hemispheres of the brain. When you're thinking about something happy, you're thinking about something sad. When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.”

Source : "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.
“From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.”
“I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?”

Source : Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.228, Penguin

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