"Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning."

-- Edward St Aubyn

#Giving Up Quotes #Mean Quotes #Two Quotes

“Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."”

Source : "The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.
“Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.”
“I've been an artist forever. I started when I was in the third grade. I drew drawings of monsters and I sold them to my classmates for a dime. I studied painting. Originally I was a design and illustration major, but I met this girl. Back then, if you were a designer, you were a real sellout, and she was a real hardcore painter. I knew she would never take me seriously unless I was an art major, so I switched majors to fine arts. Anyway, we're married now. So it worked. How I got to my style? I'm a weird artist in that everything I do looks a little different.”
“I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.”
“The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.”
“If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost and confusing, then it is because the landscape and itsÂ inhabitants are really shadows, creatures of an interior world, whose journey and whose quest are within.Â Falling Out of TimeÂ is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to beÂ underestimated.”

Source : "Falling Out of Time by David Grossman - review" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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