"Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom."

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Source : Mat Johnson (2011). “Pym: A Novel”, p.8, Spiegel & Grau

Mat Johnson

#Drunk Quotes #Detroit Quotes #Michigan Quotes

“Raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies are the main reason I have trust issues.”
“Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.”
“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the worldâ€™s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the worldâ€™s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.268, Pan Macmillan
“No one knows ish about ish, though some ish does get much closer to the real ish.”

Source : Linh Dinh (2017). “Postcards from the End of America”, p.41, Seven Stories Press
“I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible”
“I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain.”

Source : "Klaus Kinski: The Master of Screen Depravity Speaks". Interview with Ed Naha, Fangoria #28, July 1983.
“The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.”
“I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.”

Source : "Enterprise Calls Auberjonois". Interview with Michelle Erica Green, www.littlereview.com.

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