"The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now."

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Source : "Author Jonathan Evison on loss, survival and life’s epic journeys". Interview with Mary Ann Gwinn, www.seattletimes.com. September 24, 2012.

Jonathan Evison

#Lockers Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Jocks Quotes

“Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.”
“Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.”
“In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.”
“People have to be given the freedom to show the heart they possess. I think itâ€™s a leaderâ€™s responsibility to provide that type of freedom. And I believe it can be done through relationships and family. Because if a team is a real family, itâ€™s members want to show you their hearts.”
“The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.”
“The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe.”
“In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and not the good kind either.”
“Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.”

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