"It's the family you choose that counts."

-- Andrew Vachss

#You Choose Quotes

“I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men â€” at least they can cry.”
“No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.”
“How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.”
“All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.”
“I love European films in general. If I were to go to the movie store or something, that's what I like to see.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In fact, when we as neuro-typical people encounter a person with autism spectrum syndrome who's always been that way it is that we have to adjust. Just because we can read people with autism correctly, whatever that word is why do we always default to saying, 'Well, that kid is not normal?' What is normal?”
“I donâ€™t stand a chance if he doesn't get better. Youâ€™ll never be able to let him go. Youâ€™ll always feel wrong about being with me.â€ â€œThe way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you,â€ I say. Gale holds my gaze. â€œIf I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.”
“The Arts Council of England, in a 1998 report on 11 countries, found that Germany spent $85 per capita on the arts. The United States spent a shocking $6. And Canada, in its stubborn balance, spent $46... It's the Canadian way to be halfway between the Old and New worlds.”

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