"I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid."

-- Catherine Opie

#Home Quotes #School Quotes #Kids Quotes

“I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.”
“Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general and specific statements-can be deduced from the starting assumptions. It is, perhaps, the purest and most rigorous of intellectual activities, and is often thought of as queen of the sciences.”
“I remember there was this one lady shaman who said that having children puts a hole in your soul. And the only way to get it back is for your children to die. And, you know, monks don't have families.”

Source : "Swinging Modern Sounds #35: The Location Of The Soul". Interview with Rick Moody, therumpus.net. April 20, 2012.
“Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.”
“That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing.”
“Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.”

Source : "The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography".
“I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.”

Source : "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.
“Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.”

Source : FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Mar 27, 2017

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