"I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs."

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Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

Jami Attenberg

#Drinking Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist.”

Source : Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”
“I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.”
“But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.”
“Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.”
“If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.”
“Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.”
“As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.”
“I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.”

Source : Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.

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