"But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped."

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Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Marina Keegan

#Love Quotes #Lonely Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful.”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.”
“Frankly, sex work and stripping is very good if you have radical politics. You can go to meetings all night long.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.”
“There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.”

Source : Leon Battista Alberti, John Richard Spencer (1966). “Leon Battista Alberti O Painting”, p.98, Yale University Press
“Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.”
“If I meet someone and discover that they're an absolute, very earnest nationalist, it's unlikely that I'm going to get much closer to them. I don't understand them. It doesn't matter where they're from, I just don't get it. I'm a multi-national kind of guy.”
“The film The Conquest will be seen on many different levels and the American point of view is always more technical. The French are less technical - it's 'I like it, or I don't like it.' I hope that this film can have a life in the U.S. - it's the grand country of cinema. I grew up with Hollywood movies, so for a French director to have a film distributed in the U.S. is a real opportunity.”

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