"I want to say that what is cool about writing self-aware first person narrative is that the awareness is not necessarily the same awareness of the reader. I have a story coming out in the Paris Review and it's about a hipster. He think's he's self-aware, he's very introspective and analytical, but when you're reading it you can totally see through his self-analysis because you have a higher awareness than he does. I like playing with that too."

-- Ottessa Moshfegh

#Hipster Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Ah, Kerry. You've found your heart. Who is she?" ... "A healer, but she's... gone.”
“Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.”
“I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.”

Source : Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.231
“Before a baby is born, you have a baby shower, not a fetus shower.”
“The road to success just might be your driveway.”

Source : Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.156, Taylor Trade Publishing
“Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady in anything but the clothes she actually wore. Each represents completely the ideals of her time: elegant artificiality or post-Revolutionary morals, or the prudery of the rising middle class.”
“Success does not require you to look out the window, It only requires that you look in the mirror”
“For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.”

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