"I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating."

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Source : "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

Jenny Hval

#Reading Quotes #Trying Quotes #World Quotes

“The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.”
“I like the idea of a trilogy. It's cool. I like the word. When you do four, the word isn't cool - not as cool.”
“Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.”
“No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.”
“The world isn't perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn't apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.”

Source : Chloe Neill (2012). “Biting Cold: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel”, p.97, Penguin
“Cigarettes don't kill people - cancer kills people.”
“There's always some room for improvisation.”

Source : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“All that effort,â€ he mused, â€œmerely to avoid me. How gratifying.”

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