"Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?"

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Source : Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

D. T. Max

#Mistake Quotes #Past Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“China is doing a lot of things right that the United States is doing wrong.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Where is the good in goodbye?”

Source : Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey (1958). “Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics”
“I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.”
“The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.”
“Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.”
“This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.”
“All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.”
“I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.”

Source : "Book World Live: Kid's Books". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2005.

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