"When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think."

-- Rachel Zucker

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Editing Quotes

“We killed an innocent girl”
“This is a lesson about life: This is one person. This is another person. This is one person trying to understand another person, even though it doesn't have room to download the other person into it's brain. It cannot understand the other person, even though it tries to. So he ends up overflowing with knowledge.”
“On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies. On serious ground, gather in plunder. In difficult ground, keep steadily on the march. On hemmed-in ground, resort to stratagem. On desperate ground, fight.”
“If I can find the time to do it, I'll probably become a yoga teacher.”
“Chaos is a friend of mine.”
“Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.”

Source : Sarah Vowell (2008). “The Wordy Shipmates”, p.33, Penguin
“The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.”
“It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”

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