"Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door."

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Source : Charles Finch (2014). “The Last Enchantments”, p.36, Macmillan

Charles Finch

#Doors Quotes #Adulthood Quotes

“I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.”
“When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never thought of it as an art. It was just work that I loved. Not just work, but work that I loved. I loved it so much, I would play it if nobody listened to it. Any jazz musician, if there's nobody around to listen, would play just for the sheer joy of improvising music.”
“Never trust a skinny ice cream man.”
“In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2012). “Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays”, p.37, tredition
“When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.”
“Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.”
“If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.”

Source : Sexual Personae ch. 1 (1990)
“Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.”

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