"I once saw John Updike get in front of a crowd and read a story that he'd written in 1958, and I just thought, I can't even look at stuff I wrote a year ago, I can't believe he's doing this."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Jonathan Dee

#Believe Quotes

“Our partner's sexuality does not belong to us. It isn't just for and about us, and we should not assume that it rightfully falls within our jurisdiction.”
“..The truly fraudulent claims must be discarded. But novel methods of therapy should not be rejected because they are novel, or because they run counter to some generally accepted belief ("which may just be biased"), or because we do not understand the mechanism of the proposed treatment, or because it has come from an unconventional source.”
“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
“Whatâ€™s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technologyâ€™s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology and makes it understandable. Design is needed to make sense of information overload. It is why art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make sense of all the possibilities that digital technology now affords.”
“I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.82, Petrarca Press
“It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.”
“I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.”
“A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.”

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