"One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk."

-- Sufjan Stevens

#Memories Quotes #Father Quotes #White Quotes

“I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.”
“I used to own some hobby aircraft, but I got rid of them. I didn't have the time.”

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“I've gotten to play some pretty intense characters and I tend to think it's therapeutic for me.”
“Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.”
“The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.”
“Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know a lot.”

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“As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.”
“Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be so afraid to cry . . . or laugh, for that matter. Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”

Source : Armistead Maupin (1989). “Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus”, Vintage

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