"Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool."

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Source : Source: www.thefader.com

Scott McClanahan

#People Quotes #Stories Quotes #Care Quotes

“All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.”
“For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. Now I determine my weight by how my clothes feel.”
“Parity is for farmers.”
“Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.”
“The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its humility the deepest, its power world-shaking, its love enveloping, its simplicity that of a trusting child.”
“When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.”

Source : Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press
“Love, itâ€™s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.”
“When I visited concentration camps, I was more interested in how people responded to the camps than in the actual places. I watched kids picnicking on the ovens and other people stricken with grief.”

Source : 2001 From an interview on www.guggenheim.org, 18 Apr.

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