"I don't really need to appeal to some stockbroker, and I always sort of root for the underdog. I probably consider all that when I'm writing, but it's not in the forefront of my brain."

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Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

Eric Bachmann

#Writing Quotes #Roots Quotes #Brain Quotes

“I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your issues and try and take care of yourself. It can be positive too.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 14, 2015
“In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy heroin and an AK-47.”
“What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.”
“I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.”
“Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.”
“You're a victim from my drive-by of thoughts.”
“At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.”

Source : Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.58, Yearling

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