"To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this."

-- Peter L. Berger

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“He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.”
“I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.”
“If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!”
“Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.”
“The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would ever make me say life should be anything...”

Source : Harold Brodkey (2011). “Stories in an Almost Classical Mode”, p.287, Vintage
“Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.”
“I was voted Most Humorous in my senior class in high school, and I was a fan of comedy, my whole life. I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched Saturday Night Live religiously. I've just been a fan of comedy, my whole life.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Fashion is about having a fantasy.”

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