"Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society.... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel--an intense awareness of human loneliness."

--

Frank O'Connor

#Loneliness Quotes #Stories Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“As we speed along this endless road to the destination called who we hope to be, I can't help but whine, 'Are we there yet?'.”
“The Internet Was Designed For The PC. The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone”
“All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.”

Source : "Two Concepts of Liberty". Book by Isaiah Berlin, 1958.
“Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.”
“There was this one lady in Colorado who made us something ceramic, where it could have been either a ring holder or a bowl cleaner. She was just like, "Here you go." And we were both like, "Oh my god! Thank yoooou!"”
“I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.”
“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”

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