"I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun."

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Source : "'I Know What I Stand For'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

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“No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand
“The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.”
“The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.”
“I think that Rachel Maddow is probably the most assertive, politically motivated and accurate voice of my generation.”
“If you tell a friend a secret, she will keep the secret by telling only one other person.”

Source : Lisa Birnbach, Patricia Marx, Ann Hodgman (1999). “1,003 Great Things about Friends”, p.3, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.”
“And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?”
“I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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