"The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer."

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Source : Arlene J. Chai (2010). “The Last Time I Saw Mother”, p.56, Ballantine Books

Arlene J. Chai

#Air Quotes #Space Quotes #Missing Quotes

“I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.”
“It is ridiculous to assume you can tax the people that are working and give the money (to people) who are not working and somehow this creates economy activity. You are destroying as much by taking from those who are working and creating.”

Source : "The Key to Creating Jobs" by John Stossel, www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2011.
“On the road you can really be more regular about it and work it into daily routines. There's no town that doesn't have a gym. And if you find one that actually doesn't, you can go to the local high school. They always have one.”
“As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited
“Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.”

Source : "Understanding Juan Goytisolo". Book by Randolph D. Pope, 1995.
“So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know”
“My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.”
“I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”

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