"The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself."

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Source : Jim Shepard (2011). “You Think That's Bad”, p.151, Vintage

Jim Shepard

#Being Weird Quotes

“Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.”
“I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.”
“To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in the streets could not be controlled by a green light or a red light alone. It needs a green light and a red light as well. The ratio between retine and promine determines whether there is any motion, any growth, or not. Two different inclinations have to be there in readiness to make the cells proliferate.”
“Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are.”
“One may quote till one compiles.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 653-54, Curiosities of Literature, 1922.
“My method is subtraction. I use erasers to make the images in my paintings. You really have to see it to fully get it, but it is basically erasing shapes from a background of paint.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.”
“We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.”

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