"If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to be enacted unless it is being reimagined by a writer?"

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Fred D'Aguiar

#Children Quotes #Agency Quotes #Body Quotes

“I have realized that nothing else matters besides this: Am I doing everything God has put me on this earth to do?”
“To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.”
“I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm a natural performer, but I'm getting better.”
“It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.”
“When its going good, cash in as hard as you can.”
“I have learned that part of the formula for success is to keep quiet about your objective until you get it. Just as the universe is filled with positive energy waiting to join your own, there is also destructive energy emanating from people who do not like you.”
“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
“I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.”

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