"I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living."

-- Nathan Fillion

#Jobs Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Reality Quotes

“I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.”
“The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.”
“For me, I don't think I gravitate to listening to only dark music.”
“Many writers write across difference of one kind or another. Sometimes the difference is large and recognizable: gender, or race, or religion, or sexuality. And sometimes the differences are smaller. ... Where authors get into trouble is in trying to make those different characters stand in for whole groups of people, or for creating characters only to fetishize or explore their supposed otherness. Your character can be wildly different from you, as long as he's written with respect and, moreover, specificity.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.”
“Experience is retrospect knowledge.”
“I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.”
“We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadnâ€™t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadnâ€™t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadnâ€™t read it now.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2014). “Almost No Memory: Stories”, p.192, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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