"The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much."

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Source : Clarice Lispector (2012). “Near to the Wild Heart”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

Clarice Lispector

#Truth Is Quotes #Wells Quotes #Sincerely Quotes

“I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked when they called me to come in to try out for the show. The chances of me getting on a TV show and winning it is like one-in-a-million. I had only been doing comedy for six years at that point, so I was basically considered an open mic-er or maybe a feature act once in awhile.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
“Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity”
“Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.”

Source : "Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. May 10, 2012.
“I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.”
“As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.”
“If you think of dramaturgy in North America, which is so realistic and so literal sometimes, sometimes what theaters - especially dramaturgs - ask for is more information, which sometimes can really weigh down a play. There's only so much information a play can have. If you start putting in so much information, it becomes something completely different, it doesn't sing.”
“Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt.”

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