"We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon."

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Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2010). “Love and Obstacles”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

Aleksandar Hemon

#Fall Quotes #Sky Quotes #Piano Quotes

“Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”
“It's useful to be born in a different culture because you see things that are not obvious. I come from France. In France, there isn't a pretense of objectivity in publishing. I discovered - and I don't agree with it - that in the US, the New York Times or The New Yorker has to pretend to be objective, and if they present this point of view then they have to also present the other side.”

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“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”
“Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.”
“If it hurts, make it hurt more.”
“When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan wasn't panning out. I began aspiring to be an "Aquamaid" at a resort called "Aquarena Springs" in my hometown of San Marcos: Aquamaids got to wear mermaid tails and feed milk bottles underwater to Ralph the Swimming Pig for an audience submerged in a "submarine".”

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“My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.”
“You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.”

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