"Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit."

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Jonathan Lethem

#Writing Quotes #Kind Quotes #Fantastic Quotes

“I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.”
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.”
“Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.”

Source : Valerie Steele (2005). “Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion”, Charles Scribners Sons/Reference
“Life's too short not to forgive.”
“One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.”
“We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.”
“We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.”
“My wife always tells people, 'He's not going to be able run to for anything because I'm not going to let him start a campaign.”

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