"I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after."

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Source : "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1st, 2008.

Alan Bishop

#Reality Quotes #Karaoke Quotes #Modern Quotes

“For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.”
“All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.”
“My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities”
“At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives, that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction. The art of the photographer lies in using those connotations, as a poet uses the connotations of words and a musician the tonal connotations of sounds.”
“Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.”
“I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.”
“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
“She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.”

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