"People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling."

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Source : Lyn Hejinian (2013). “My Life and My Life in the Nineties”, p.28, Wesleyan University Press

Lyn Hejinian

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“My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.”

Source : "‘Glee’ Star Harry Shum Jr. On Michael Jackson And Sectionals". Interview With Chris Harnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.
“I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.”
“That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.”
“When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look our pain square in the face and ask, "Am I going to hang on to my anger and do violence to myself, or am I going to forgive those who have wounded me? Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?"”
“I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.”
“I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what we see and what we cannot.”
“A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.”
“I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.”

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