"Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we canâ€™t. Because we donâ€™t really believe we can die."

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Source : Deb Olin Unferth (2010). “Vacation”, p.105, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Deb Olin Unferth

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“We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.”
“Dream big, work hard and don't be an asshole!”
“Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.”

Source : "The Art of Problem Solving: Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables". Book by Russell L. Ackoff, 1978.
“He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well.”

Source : Cecil Frances Alexander (1871). “Hymns for Little Children”, p.28
“It was an incredible way to grow up, because words that you're taught - these definite things - you realize they sort of beautifully fall apart; that words are tenuous. In the middle of a large word, there's a small word that possibly contradicts the larger word. So I grew up where, on the one hand, the only thing I would ever think of doing was something in writing, music, or art, and on the other hand, I could've reacted strongly against it because it would've been a way to rebel.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a ***** fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.”
“When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.”
“I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.”

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