"If youâ€™re reading to find friends, youâ€™re in deep trouble."

-- Claire Messud

#Reading Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.”
“Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.”
“If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to conventions--which means that I'm probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.”
“There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.”
“I love awards, especially if I get them.”
“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
“I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.”
“Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.”

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