"Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Cities Quotes #Growing Quotes #Ruins Quotes

“Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.”
“You gotta understand also that teenage kids just don't have the experience and the studio technique. I mean, in those days it wasn't electronic like it is today, where you can hit a drum and, you know, the engineer does it all. In those days, everything was live and you had to have decent sounds, and through the years you get to weed out what's bad and what's good.”
“I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.”
“A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government - it's like the existence of another authority.”
“I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.”
“When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.”
“Photography is a love affair with life.”
“I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.”

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