"I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving."

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Source : "INTERVIEW: Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Hausfrau". Interview With Heather Scott Partington, electricliterature.com. March 12, 2015.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#Dream Quotes #Book Quotes #Self Quotes

“It's difficult for me to describe my own music; every song is an experience that I set to music. There's no lyrics, no singer, just instruments, but I'm sure you can feel what the song is talking about just by listen to it. I can't describe a feeling, my songs are feelings.”
“Just like Love is yonder rose, Heavenly fragrance round it throws, Yet tears its dewy leaves disclose, And in the midst of briars it blows Just like Love.”
“My best feature is my hair.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Hayley Mills, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.
“There have been men before â€¦ who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himselfâ€¦ as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”
“We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique, you have to think 'I'm me, I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box, to accommodate their limited imaginations.”

Source : "I'm not in that league" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2004.
“I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.”
“When my son said, "I can't stop thinking about girls," I said, "That's not gonna stop. Congratulations. You're in the club. From now until the day you die, one way or another you'll be thinking about girls.”
“Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.”

Source : Andrei Codrescu (2006). “New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City”, p.195, Algonquin Books

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