"I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Roz Chast

#Cute Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Hands Quotes

“How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.”
“Superheroes in New York, Give me a break!”
“There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.”
“I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown.”
“Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.”
“Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk . . . somewhere You've long been dust, my Halicarnassian friend. But your Nightingales live on. Though the Death world Claws at everything, it will not touch them.”
“You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.”
“This does not mean, of course, that we must think of waiting for the age of universal harmony.”

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