"I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation."

-- James Vincent McMorrow

#Expectations Quotes #London Quotes #Moved Quotes

“As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.”
“Everything I do or say will be forgotten in a few short years. Yet how amazing and wonderful it is that somehow I still care, just simply care about whatever I do, and will probably do so until my dying moment.”
“I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.”
“Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.”
“The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.”
“writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.”
“An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.”
“I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.”

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