"I felt a little lost as a student. At Iowa, I felt as if I had gotten into this program that was going to save me, and so I moved myself across the country for grad school and yet still didn't have a home. It was upsetting. And I know that's a common feeling."

-- John D'Agata

#Country Quotes #School Quotes #Home Quotes

“No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.”
“An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.”
“Be brave, be bold and above all be honest, some people will hate you and some will love you but they will all see the real you”
“I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.”
“I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.”

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“The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.”
“Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?”
“A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.”

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