"I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me."

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Source : Curtis Sittenfeld (2013). “Prep and American Wife: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.237, Random House

Curtis Sittenfeld

#Might Quotes #Rare Moments Quotes #Panic Quotes

“To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.”
“May as well leave the door open.”
“Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books.”
“Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.”
“Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.”
“I see lies everywhere - switch on the television, it's lies. Everything is lies. In the art world or science community, we are intellectuals, people who research, who are interested in learning and thinking. I think the level of lies is way lower than when you step into what I call "the outside world".”
“I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.”
“Yeah, most guys don't like to think about going to a bar with a girlfriend and watching her leave with someone else.”

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