"Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman."

-- Ann Beattie

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“I think, retrospectivety helps to hone your ideas for future projects. I like it.”
“There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.”
“The ego encourages you to constantly prove yourself and what you already know. When you are in the presence of someone you feel the need to impress, the ego's automatic response is 'I know.' The moment you say 'I know,' you are demonstrating that you don't know. You can learn something valuable from everyone, in every situation.”
“I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 21, 2005.
“Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?" I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep. "What makes you think were friends?" "Everything." I hear her yawn. "Being enemies with him is better." she tells me. There's a long pause and I think she's going to say something more but she doesn't and it's just silence for a long while.”
“We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.”
“My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.”
“The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things.”

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