"I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me."

--

Source : Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

D. T. Max

#People Quotes #Garbage Quotes #Needed Quotes

“Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.”
“Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.”
“I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.”
“I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.”

Source : "Chuck Wepner". ipfs.io.
“I'm always very conscious because I like to give time between records, even though I feel like I write music that will last it's time, whatever time that is.”
“The country's top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards.”
“In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations.”

Source : Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”
“I've often been given the career advice to not wear too many hats, which, of course, has just encouraged me to wear other hats, such as being a writer, being a curator, or just doing anything outside of the definition of an artist.”

You may also like:

Blake Bailey
Writer
Cherie Priest
Novelist
Chogyam Trungpa
Teacher
Daniel Abraham
Author
David Foster Wallace
Novelist
David Lipsky
Author
David Maraniss
Journalist
Deborah Levy
Playwright
Gardner Dozois
Fictioneer