"I both loved and hated South Pasadena. On the one hand, it was so diverse - all my closest friends were immigrants or had immigrant parents. On the other hand, it was a bit conservative - in a sort of wholesome, Midwestern, small-town sense. I never met a single writer until I moved to New York City for college."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Porochista Khakpour

#New York Quotes #College Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Everything that we design is designing us back”

Source : "A Quick Word With Performance Philosopher Jason Silva". Interview with Natasha Waisfeld, www.an-mag.com. April 17, 2015.
“I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents.”
“I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.”
“Lexicographers are language reporters.”
“Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.”
“perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday
“I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.”
“Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when adventure was a possible thing for her. Particularly she remembered one who had for a time been her lover and who in the moment of his passion had cried out to her more than a hundred times, saying the same words madly over and over: "You dear! You dear! You lovely dear!" The words, she thought, expressed something she would have liked to have achieved in life.”

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