"If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Fred D'Aguiar

#Running Quotes #Air Quotes #Breathing Quotes

“My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of security on the land and rich-scented life on the exotic islands of literature. I wasn't really a writer. I had seen a strange beautiful light on the hills and that was all.”
“My mum always used to say to me that, out of her three boys, 'Chris, you were the girl!' I'd speak to her about far more things (than my brothers would) and far more things than she needed to hear about, too. I was a chatty kid.”
“Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.”
“Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.”

Source : Samuel Parr (1828). “Works: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence”, p.673
“May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.”
“Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.”
“Every adult needs a child to teach; itâ€™s the way adults learn.”
“To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.”

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