"Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Justin Torres

#Memories Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
“If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.”
“Romanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler”
“Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.”
“I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique”
“They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.”

Source : Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.35, Hol Art Books
“Everyone's got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.”
“Lists have always implied social order.”

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