"She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity."

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Source : Nick Laird (2009). “Glover's mistake”

Nick Laird

#Home Quotes #Authenticity Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and nucleophilic (nucleus-seeking) are suggested... and the organic molecule, in the activation necessary for reaction, is therefore required to develop at the seat of attack either a high or low electron density as the case may be.”
“There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.”
“There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.”
“I suppose once upon a time a Test match was something you looked forward to go and watch. It's very hard to get the quality these days because the focus is more on quantity.”
“The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.”
“Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.”
“I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make ordinary people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think.”
“Once I get comfortable and feel a part of what I'm doing, I've always hit.”

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