"I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit."

-- Ottessa Moshfegh

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“Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.”
“He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.”
“Marriage is an undertaking that requires focused time and attention to prepare effectively.”
“The sea finds out everything you did wrong.”
“If your grandparents are Mexican, you can relate through the roots of the show [Top Chef], through the food, through the traditions and find yourself and get to know yourself too.”

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“Other people have all kinds of information about you that is invisible to you. How do you get feedback?”
“For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
“My worth to God in public is what I am in private.”

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