"Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime."

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Source : Yiyun Li (2014). “Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel”, p.308, Random House

Yiyun Li

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“It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.”
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.”
“When he held her that way, she felt so happy that it disturbed her. After he left, it would take her hours to fall asleep, and then when she woke up she would feel another onrush of agitated happiness, which was a lot like panic. She wished she could grab the happiness and mash it into a ball and hoard it and gloat over it, but she couldn't. It just ran around all over the place, disrupting everything.”

Source : Mary Gaitskill (2012). “Because They Wanted To: Stories”, p.91, Simon and Schuster
“You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses. I think for me it's about what you leave out [rather] than what you put in. I'm not sure that the songs help me figure anything out so much as they're a distillation of the original question.”

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“The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.”
“When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.”
“Tequila is my drink. It is my favorite alcohol, my favorite liquor because, you know, it's a stimulant and not a depressant. If I go to a party and everyone's been drinking and I don't have time to really "catch up" - I'm not trying to get drunk but I want to feel good - I drink tequila.”
“To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.”

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