"I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision."

--

Denis Johnson

#Voice Quotes #Vision Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.”
“Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)”
“Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.”

Source : "The mobile technofuture" by Neil McIntosh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2002.
“Give the devil his due.”
“We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.”
“I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.”
“But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.”

Source : "I Give You Back". Poem by Joy Harjo,
“BDS represents three words that will help bring about the defeat of Zionist Israel and victory for Palestine.”

Source : "Destructive 'Agnosticism'" by Yitzhak Santis, www.haaretz.com. November 26, 2010.

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