"I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory."

-- Karen Russell

#Territory Quotes #Grows Quotes

“90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology.”
“Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.”

Source : Samuel R. Delany (1977). “Triton”, Macmillan Reference USA
“Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.”
“If there was criticism about [Oscar Wilde], it was because it was written by a straight man who wasn't very educated about the gay world.”
“The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the old slave chants and up through the blues, the jazz, and up through rock. And it's all got the African pulse.”
“There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.”
“Everyone fixes up their face if itâ€™s not ideal, you know? Thatâ€™s because of the race-mixing. For example, a Russian marries an Armenian. They have a kid, a cute girl, but she has her dadâ€™s nose. She goes and files it down a little, and itâ€™s all good. Ethnicities are mixing now, so thereâ€™s degeneration, and it didnâ€™t used to be like that. Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.”

Source : "This is Not a Barbie Doll. This Is an Actual Human Being." by Michael Idov, www.gq.com. July 12, 2017.
“Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and serves a higher purpose. Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of community. It is, in short, the essential human connection.”

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