"Like most people raised on American movies, I have poor access to my emotions, but can banter like a motherfucker."

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Josh Bazell

#People Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Poor Quotes

“The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.”
“If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2012). “Liar & Spy”, p.38, Wendy Lamb Books
“Im 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.”
“Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has been forced on us by the realization that we are approaching the limits of something.”
“The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind”
“Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.”
“To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.”

Source : Janna Levin (2009). “A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines”, p.91, Anchor
“I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.”

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