"As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Jazmine Sullivan

#Writing Quotes #Kind Quotes #Curious Quotes

“If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.”
“I hate flying. I don't planes. I get really anxious.”
“When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.”
“I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.”
“Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat.”
“The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter, and apprehend such as they might deem obnoxious persons.”

Source : John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (2004). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, p.128, Hendrickson Publishers
“I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.”
“Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other.”

Source : Claudia Rankine (2004). “Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric”, Graywolf Press

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