"If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches to, then that person is kin."

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Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Opposite House”, p.162, A&C Black

Helen Oyeyemi

#Finding Yourself Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Should Quotes

“It [The Esemblist] is also about the generation of audience members that are watching shows and listening to us at the same time; hopefully, in time, when they listen to our show and then go see a show, they'll realize even more what it takes to make a show, and they'll know even more about everybody on stage, rather than just people above the title of the show.”
“I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.”
“America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something.”

Source : Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2005.
“Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.”

Source : Hugh MacLennan (2011). “Voices in Time”, p.182, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
“I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works...”
“The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.”
“When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.”
“Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.”

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