"We come from long lines of people destined never to meet."

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Source : Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

Miranda July

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Lines Quotes

“Love is too precious to be ashamed of.”
“I started in comedy when I first started as an actor on stage and doing improvisational theater and stuff like that. So a lot of people who know me know that sort of side of me. But I got the roles that I got as an young actor kind of steered me in a different direction, which were, at times, darker characters. And so comedy was not something that came easy for people to think of my in those terms.”
“One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank.”
“And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, starved, gassed, incinerated, and hanged...”
“There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.”
“Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.”
“The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.”
“I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com

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