"I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies."

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Source : Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. August 23, 2011.

Dana Spiotta

#Writing Quotes #Technology Quotes #Trying Quotes

“It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.”

Source : Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.222, Penguin
“The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers... of all men to the extent that they know.”
“Success does not require you to look out the window, It only requires that you look in the mirror”
“Fifteen per cent of the population believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona and somewhat fewer still believe the Earth is flat. I think they all get together with the global warming deniers on a Saturday night and party”
“I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have”
“[Eva Braun] lived life with [Adolf] Hitler, when he was away, she just filled up her time without Hitler. That was the sum total of it, really.”
“Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes ...”
“I think you manifest what you believe, and when you believe that you have no choice you lose choice.”

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