"Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about."

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Source : Tom Wolfe (1982). “The Purple Decades: A Reader”, p.229, Macmillan

Tom Wolfe

#Apologizing Quotes

“It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.”

Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.500, Univ of California Press
“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”

Source : "You've been a great audience ..." by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2009.
“What really made me want to get involved in politics was seeing the rise of the antichrist Donald Trump. I started to see how he was energizing the country, but he was energizing the country in total opposite ways than Barack did. He wasn't bringing people together; he was literally tearing people apart. He literally wants to build a wall while I feel like Barack Obama's rise actually built bridges.”
“In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.”
“There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.”
“My husband is my part of my greatest joys, so it doesn't feel like work or like I'm balancing anything. My husband and my kids absolutely come first, so work is just something where I figure out where it will fit.”
“Single guys get a bad rap.”
“It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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