"The only value of wasted time is knowledge."

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Source : Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.228, Hawthorne Books

Monica Drake

#Wasted Time Quotes #Values Quotes

“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”
“I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.”
“We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.”
“I do not know how to make poems”

Source : Henri Michaux (1968). “Selected Writings: The Space Within”, p.13, New Directions Publishing
“As far Chicago, our city was designed with racism in mind, with neighborhoods segregated by expressways and train tracks. Even suburbs, like Highland Park, have long histories of barring Jewish and black people. That history that has always existed has come out of the shadows because of the social and political climate.”

Source : Source: chicagoist.com
“I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.”
“A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.”
“Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.”

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