"When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young."

-- Vestal McIntyre

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Adults Quotes

“I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.”
“Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.”
“To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.”
“The last kiss is given to the void.”

Source : Aidan Higgins (1997). “Flotsam and jetsam”
“Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.”
“I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.”
“When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.”

Source : Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2005.
“As is always the case with American presidential elections, nobody's talking about the fact that the empire will be ruled from Washington, and foreign policy has just not been on anybody's screen, unfortunately.”

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