"I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them."

-- CaitlÃn R. Kiernan

#Needs Quotes #World Quotes #Awful Quotes

“Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.”
“What I really like about Cuba is that you can go into a local bar in a provincial town and you'll get jazz played at the highest standard - played often a cappella, or certainly with no amplification or whatever. Even if you are not knowledgeable about music, and I am not, you can find yourself really enjoying it.”
“I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.”
“Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great depression, with 40 million Americans dealing with student loans, with millions of people working full-time at minimum wage and still living in poverty, with the big banks getting bigger and the workers getting poorer, and seniors struggling to make ends meet, Republicans in Washington have decided the most important thing for them to focus on is how to deny women access to birth control.”
“Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.”
“I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine.”
“When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.”
“Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.”

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