"It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off."

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Source : Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

Adam Haslett

#Depression Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion.”
“There was - there still is - a big shortage of good Chinese-English literary translators. So for two years in London, I was stuck waiting, not writing, with several Chinese books I couldn't get translated. That's when I decided to write in English, since I had been living here and had decided to reconstruct my life here. Even if I wrote in broken English, it was better than getting bored and weary and bitter on the long queue of authors waiting to be translated by a stranger.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.”
“I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.”
“There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.”

Source : Interviewed by the "Chicago SEED", November, 1968.
“Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.”
“And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.”

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