"I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language were more than partial, if your whole life existed within your texts. That would be much scarier to me than language being an inadequate tool to represent."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Maggie Nelson

#Language Quotes #Whole Life Quotes #Bother Quotes

“Mousse was a Labrador retriever, which is a large enthusiastic bulletproof species of dog made entirely from synthetic materials. This is the kind of dog that, if it takes an interest in your personal regions (which of course it does) you cannot fend it off with a blowtorch.”
“Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.”
“Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.”

Source : William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.44, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“Nobody can pedal the bike for you.”
“You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.”
“Don't misinterpret God's silence as rejection.”
“The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.”
“What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.”

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