"It's hard for me to shut off my writer brain completely."

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Source : "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

#Brain Quotes #Hard Quotes

“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”
“A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader”
“James Comey had nine interactions with Bob Mueller after the Donald Trump's election. And in none of those, Comey testified, did he express any interest, concern, about what the Russians did, how they did it, how do we prevent it. He continuously has in fact denigrated the whole idea and dismissed that it was the Russians, and apparently hasn't yet accepted the 100-percent consensus of everybody that knows about this that this was a conscious and deliberate effort on their part to attack our democracy.”
“Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.”
“I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.”
“I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los Angeles. Written across both arrows were the words 'Toward Civilization.' Of course, by the time I got to New York, I realized there really isn't any civilization.”
“A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.”
“I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.”

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