"I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out."

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Source : FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jun 02, 2013

Katherine Dunn

#Magic Quotes #Age Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.”
“Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man.”
“I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.”
“Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
“With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.”
“When you are writing the kind of criticism you hope you're writing, everything depends on keeping your calm or your cool. You're trying to tell someone about something that they may know nothing about. They depend on you to read or interpret as best as you can.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.
“People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.”

Source : George William Russell (1913). “Co-operation and Nationality: A Guide for Rural Reformers from this to the Next Generation”

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