"I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would eventually encounter in terms of people who weren't being sincere. I'm not saying that it happens always or a lot, but it happens enough that sometimes it makes me feel a little queasy."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Oscar Hijuelos

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Encounters Quotes

“Boxing is a business and if it makes sense, other than my brother (Anthony), damn right I'll fight him.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.”

Source : "A Surprising Record From Gil Scott Heron". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 11, 2010.
“The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.”

Source : Denis Dutton (2009). “The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA
“I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.”
“I think growing up, we always try to make sense of who we are, what we go through, and I grew up in a very religious household. I interpreted what was wrong with me through religious language and I concluded, probably because of a combination of forces around me, that there was something in me that God didn't like or was unhappy with. Since these problems were in large part congenital, that meant that I was doomed from the beginning. I didn't have a chance.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.”

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