"I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough. And so, for a long time, that kept me from writing about it. But once I began, I realized it was just as interesting as anywhere else."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.”
“I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.”
“If you let go of me now,â€ I whispered, stretching against him, â€œit could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?”
“The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.”

Source : Mamphela Ramphele, Johnnetta B. Cole (1999). “Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader”, p.181, Feminist Press at CUNY
“If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.”
“The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.”
“There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
“The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level.”

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