"I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there."

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Source : Maria Dahvana Headley (2015). “Magonia”, p.8, HarperCollins

Maria Dahvana Headley

#Book Quotes #Friendly Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.”
“I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.”
“The more you have, the more people want to use you and damage you.”
“I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.”
“A readers eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.”
“Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.”
“Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon.”
“Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him”

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