"I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the essays could exist on their own terms. A book that was neither a book of essays that were shoehorned into a memoir, nor [one where] the essays had been published elsewhere first, [because] then they would kind of bear the marks of those publications."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Meghan Daum

#Book Quotes #Done Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.”
“Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.”
“Make the man within your living ideal.”
“Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed. Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you”
“Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer is obvious; as refreshing as summer is wearying. Autumn seems like paradise.”
“During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable.”

Source : Lev Manovich (2001). “The Language of New Media”, p.168, MIT Press
“I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure,”

Source : "Raf Simons: Force of Nature" by Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 09, 2013.
“Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho”

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