"I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction."

-- Heather O'Neill

#Unfortunate Things Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“A gentleman who for reasons of chivalry I shall not mention, but who occupied grand office, and who had taken grandly of wine and allowed veritas to overcome him, went up to the Prime Minister and told her he had always fancied her, to which the Prime Minister replied, "Quite right - you have very good taste but I just don't think you would make it at the moment.”
“Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head?”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
“How the hell do you wake up dead?”
“It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation, and pastiche no longer needs any special name. Now this is simlpy the basic logic of cultural production.”
“Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.”

Source : George Stillman Hillard (1854). “Six Months in Italy”, p.52
“Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.”

Source : Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.42, Penguin
“Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk with them and they tell me all types of old stories, and sometimes I might even pull my horn out in the middle of the block, and they're playing on beer bottles and different things, and we just do a little second line type thing, just us, four or five people, who are just having fun. That makes me day to be able to do that and go hang out with the people in the (Treme) neighborhood, and to do some shows around town, you know?”

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