"I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out."

-- Victoria Chang

#Community Quotes #West Coast Quotes #Spread Quotes

“You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.”

Source : Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.267, Penguin
“The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.”
“The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.”

Source : "Paris From My Window". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1944.
“My art became very public.”
“There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are,”
“When you get great stuff to do, you just don't want to let anybody down.”
“In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.”
“The decision on the right balance between competition and investment can no longer be solely a national issue.”

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