"Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Eileen Myles

#Art Quotes #Feels Quotes

“God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.”
“I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.”
“It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.”
“I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be endangered, no reputation to toss away and no pride which might suffer a setback. Everything I acquired had to be velvet. You cannot lose your silver spoon if you are brought up on pewter.”
“Well, I don't ever leave out details, in that I don't come up with information or description which I don't then use. I only ever come up with what seems to me absolutely essential to make the story work. I'm not usually an overwriter. As I revise, it's usually a matter of adding in as much vivid details as seem necessary to make the story come clear without slowing down the momentum of the story.”

Source : Interview with Maggie Slater, www.apex-magazine.com. Juy 2, 2013.
“The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.”
“Perl programming is an *empirical* science!”
“Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.”

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