"I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things."

-- Lydia Davis

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Pay Quotes

“The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.”
“Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another, or even from one lake to another anywhere. A canoe trip has become simply a rite of oneness with certain terrain, a diversion off the field, an art performed not because it is a necessity but because there is value in the art itself.”

Source : John McPhee (1982). “The Survival of the Bark Canoe”, p.34, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Knowing that you have working with you a force, which never yet has failed in anything it has undertaken, you can go ahead in the confident knowledge that it will not fail in your case, either.”
“I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.”
“It's very easy to co-opt subcultures, and I think that scene was very easily coopted, not just on a feminist level but on a capitalist level in general. It's hard to see now because, to me, now there are so many competing pluralistic subcultures.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.”
“All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.”

Source : "Tammy Baldwin Announces Senate Run In Wisconsin" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.
“If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.”

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