"People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their friend."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Eileen Myles

#People Quotes #Like You Quotes #Mainstream Quotes

“I've always loved food too much to be a model.”
“I think we get on with living our lives like everybody else does. Where we're at in music is trying to explain what's going around us either directly or by analogy and trying to create a parallel, an analog, sometimes musical, sometimes dramatic, that might be truthful.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.”
“All I want to do is make people beautiful.”
“The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.”

Source : Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”
“Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia.”
“Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.”
“I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.”

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