"Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief."

-- Jess Walter

#Memories Quotes #Eye Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes

“Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.
“One breath at a time. One day at a time. Wake up, and be shredded. Cry for a while. Then stop crying and go about your day. You're not okay, but you're alive, and you will be okay, someday.”
“He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now.”
“Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.”

Source : FaceBook post by Charles Yu from May 11, 2014
“I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.”
“Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.”
“I watch a lot of TV, I drink a lot of coffee, but you know what's really addictive? Heroin.”

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