"I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool, it is itself - it comes from the moment, from the character, from the background, from the streets."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Elia Suleiman

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Tools Quotes

“Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.”
“The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.”

Source : "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.
“But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket”
“You have to be comfortable in what you're wearing.”
“every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?”
“My research has shown me that when emotions are expressed-which is to say that the biochemicals that are the substrate of emotion are flowing freely-all systems are united and made whole. When emotions are repressed, denied, not allowed to be whatever they may be, our network pathways get blocked, stopping the flow of the vital feel-good, unifying chemicals that run both our biology and our behavior.”

Source : Candace Pert (2012). “Molecules Of Emotion: Why You Feel The Way You Feel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster
“I didnt quit movies. They quit me.”

Source : Jane Powell (2014). “The Girl Next Door...And How She Grew”, p.81, Untreed Reads
“Ability without honor is useless.”

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