"In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mattel's Intellivision, instead of Atari's legendary gizmo. This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be."

-- Colson Whitehead

#Reality Quotes #Years Quotes #Apples Quotes

“I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.”
“I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.”

Source : "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.
“I donâ€™t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with -- thatâ€™s the way I was raised -- but I just canâ€™t see whatâ€™s so wrong about being gay.”
“The animate and inanimate creation all contribute to the true worship of God. All of creation must worship at whatever level of sentience they possess. Jesus said if men held back their praise, even the stones might "cry out" in worship.”
“It's all about where your mind's at”
“I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. Â And the cost is more than I can bear.”
“A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.”
“The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.”

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