"Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension."

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Source : "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

Kathryn Harrison

#People Quotes #Tears Quotes #Veils Quotes

“I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer M. Brown, www.publishersweekly.com. Mar 12, 2001.
“One is that I'm really interested in movies about sex and lust, because I think those are primal, carnal instincts that translate well to a visual medium. Two, these things that I write, or want to make, are an expression of - I don't want to say darker instincts, but let's say darker instincts. But that's why I'm a writer.”
“I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.”
“America's a very traumatized society.”
“I had the luck of having an obedient body.”
“To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.”
“The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.”

Source : May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.96, Library of America
“Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.”

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