"Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language. The way you speak changes you, because when you are speaking, you are representing yourself in a certain way."

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Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

Vijay Seshadri

#Self Quotes #Way Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“What makes me cry? Anything bad related to my kids. The world.”
“The only difference between the Coyotes and 'Days of Our Lives' is that nobody has been shot on our team yet.”
“What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?”
“Hunger makes a thief of any man.”
“Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.”
“Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.”
“Everybody is a teenage idol.”
“Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.”

Source : Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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