"I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor."

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Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

Marina Keegan

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“I'm a real dude from a real place and I never express myself through social sites. I don't feed into it, man. That's not real life.”
“Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.”
“There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.”
“Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.”
“Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.”
“Lots of guys don't like Jacques Plante, but he has been good to me. He's always by himself, you know, and how can you hate a guy when you never see him?”
“The greatest development after age 21 was shown by Steinitz, who increased his rating by more than a full class interval. Steinitz was the deep student and fierce competitor to the end of his career.”
“To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.”

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