"We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are."

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Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

David Bezmozgis

#Thinking Quotes #Doe Quotes #Who We Are Quotes

“My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at the head of the table. I think that's a mistake, in obvious opposition to the ideal of teaching which permits a student to be someone other than the teacher. ... The successful teacher has to make each of the students a different product rather than the same.”
“The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.”
“Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?”
“I have never been awake before.”

Source : Stephen LaBerge (2012). “Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life”, p.45, Sounds True
“When he's happy, it makes you happy too.”
“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.”
“Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even more moves, were repeated endlessly. True novelties were becoming scarcer, and sometimes these 'opening' novelties didn't appear until well into the middlegame. (A master-level friend once proudly showed me a novelty he'd discovered at move twenty-seven of a very well-trodden chess opening, and it's said that even as far back as the 1950's Mikhail Botvinnik had some openings memorised past the thirtieth move).”
“Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion.”

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